Foreign Fighters

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is, sadly, yet another conflict that is consuming the lives of foreign volunteer fighters —

By Robert Kang On March 22, 2019, the Trump administration announced the defeat of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). Sarah Sanders, White House spokeswoman, briefed the press on the president’s planned withdrawal of 2,000 U.S. troops from Syria. She went on to claim that the U.S.-backed…

Some thoughts on the Constrain pilot scheme Red top tabloids have gone purple with rage at the recent news of “Operation Constrain” a British government pilot scheme aimed at re-integrating jihadis. The scheme, they fulminate, will “bribe” returning IS fighters with council houses and help with finding jobs. It’s important not to take this extreme interpretation of…

A British government minister recently addressed the unique international difficulties posed by the Islamic State’s loss of territory and…

Profiling the foreign fighters who joined the Russia-backed separatists — The tenth measure of the Minsk II agreement calls for the withdrawal of all foreign fighters and mercenaries in eastern Ukraine. While this provision mostly refers to the thousands of Russian volunteers fighting on the side of the separatists in eastern Ukraine, there are also dozens — of perhaps hundreds…