Posts Tagged: foreign fighters
Findings on ISIS Refugees Further Complicate Europe’s Dilemma
It's the question that has consumed governments and counterterrorism officials since the Islamic State first took hold: what to do with the foreign ISIS fighters...
Neutral Switzerland’s Growing Islamist and Jihadist Challenge
"Respect your wives," admonished the imam of the Dar Assalam mosque. "You have rights over them and they over you." But, he quickly added, women...
The Lull in Terrorism Masks a Deepening Jihadist Threat
It's been a relatively quiet year for jihadists in the West. This, combined with the military fall of the Islamic State, has led politicians and...
European Intelligence Officials: Islamist Terror Threat Is as Strong as Ever
It has become "the new normal," a structural part of 21st-century life. And the jihadist threat against the West is just as strong now as...
It’s Time to Break the Barriers to Researching Prison Radicalization
As more foreign fighters return from the ISIS battlefields to their home countries -- and face possible prosecution and imprisonment -- the European Union continues...
Are Prisons Conveyor Belts to Jihad?
As the United States and its coalition partners continue to squeeze ISIS out of its remaining territory in Iraq and Syria, more and more foreign...
Southern Libya: Terrorism’s Next Frontier
ISIS' recent battleground defeats and its loss of most of the areas in Syria and Iraq that it once controlled have forced group leaders to find an...
Young But Dangerous: Still No Answer to Handling Europe’s Children of ISIS
When Emilie Konig left her home in France to join the Islamic State, she left her two children behind. The former barmaid, who converted to Islam after...
Terrorists, Victims — or Both? The Children of ISIS Return
They learn to count by attending public lashings. By the age of nine, they know how to use a gun, make a bomb and torture...
Returning ISIS Jihadists Pose Long, Uncharted Challenges for US and Europe
For months now, Western counterterrorism experts have sounded the alarm: as ISIS loses ground, foreign fighters from America and Europe may try to return home. When...
Russia’s Terrorist Double Game
In April, a Muslim Russian national from Kyrgyzstan detonated an explosive device in St. Petersburg's subway system, killing 14 people and injuring many others. The...
Iran Establishes Network of Training Camps for Foreign Terrorists, Resistance Group Says
Iran’s hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime’s...
New Study Emphasizes Islamism as Terrorist Foreign Fighters’ Main Motivation
Some prominent public figures and officials often claim that Islam has nothing to do with the jihadist terrorist violence spreading throughout the world. A recent...
Europe Gambles on De-Radicalization Programs as Terror Threat Rises
For the past several weeks, the news out of Syria and Iraq has been consistent and decisive: The Islamic State is losing ground. Battered by...
