Search Results for: Not Only Syria The Phenomenon Of Foreign Fighters In A Comparative Perspective

The term ‘foreign fighters’ describes nationals of one state who – for whatever variety of reasons and motives – travel abroad to take part in a conflic

Recent wars in Eurasia have foregrounded the flows of foreign fighters between distinct insurgent battlefronts. Since 2011 thousands of individuals have travell

Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defe

Research to-date on so-called 'Islamic State' (IS) or 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria's' (ISIS) foreign fighters has mainly covered the movement of these from

What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse individuals such as Lord Byron, George Orwell, Che Guevara, and