Posts Tagged: foreign fighters
Europe’s Terror Challenges: The Returnee Threat
Another week has brought another barrage of headlines illustrating the depth of Europe's terror threat. The following examples came during a 24-hour window earlier this month: "Schiphol...
As ISIS Loses Territory, Fighters Likely to Bring Jihad Home to Mideast
ISIS is steadily losing ground, personnel and financial assets in Syria and Iraq. Growing numbers of frustrated jihadists are fleeing the "caliphate," or are unable...
The Islamic University of Minnesota Is a Hotbed of Extremism
The Minneapolis-based Islamic University of Minnesota (IUM) has an extremism problem. It is run by a man who used a recent sermon to invoke a Hadith...
How to Dismantle ISIS’ Global Terror Headquarters
The Islamic State (ISIS)'s de facto capital in Raqqa, Syria, has become the new headquarters for global terrorism. It is where plots to sow murder...
Europe’s Young ISIS Recruits: Should They Stay or Should They Go?
For weeks, Farid Bouamran, a Dutch-Moroccan immigrant who has lived in Amsterdam for 30 years, watched as his son Achraf became increasingly radicalized, tuning in to...
The Terror Threat to Europe Is America’s, Too
Some weeks after the attacks of 9/11, a Dutch journalist spoke at a panel discussion in Amsterdam, describing his experience of the events. Faced with...
