Foreign fighter
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A foreign fighter is someone who travels abroad to participate in a non-international armed conflict or fight for a country of which he or she is not a national.[1][2][3]
See also
- French Foreign Legion
- Spanish Foreign Legion
- Portuguese Foreign Legion
- International response to the Spanish Civil War
- Foreign support of Finland in the Winter War
- Mahal (Israel)
- Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts
- Foreign volunteers in the Rhodesian Security Forces
- Foreign fighters in the Croatian War of Independence
- Foreign fighters in the Bosnian War
- Foreign fighters in the Syrian Civil War and War in Iraq
- Foreign fighters in the Russo-Ukrainian War
- Controversy surrounding Swedish jihadist foreign fighters
- Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel
- List of foreign volunteers
References
- ^ Asal, Victor; Malet, David (2021). "Nobody More Terrible than the Desperate: Conflict Conditions and Rebel Demand for Foreign Fighters". Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: 1–19. doi:10.1080/1057610X.2021.1961715.
- ^ Cragin, R. Kim (2017). "The Challenge of Foreign Fighter Returnees". Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 33 (3): 292–312. doi:10.1177/1043986217697872.
- ^ Malet, David (2015). "Foreign Fighter Mobilization and Persistence in a Global Context". Terrorism and Political Violence. 27 (3): 454–473. doi:10.1080/09546553.2015.1032151.
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