Foreign fighter

A foreign fighter is someone who travels abroad to participate in an armed conflict, or fights for a country of which he or she is not a national, though different definitions have been used by different journalists, policymakers, and researchers, depending on what distinctions they've wished to make. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

See also

• French Foreign Legion
• Spanish Foreign Legion
• Portuguese Foreign Legion
• International response to the Spanish Civil War
  • International Brigades
• 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
  • Ukrainian volunteer battalions
• Controversy surrounding Swedish jihadist foreign fighters
• Final Report of the Task Force on Combating Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel
• List of foreign volunteers

References

1. 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.
2. Cragin, R. Kim (2017). "The Challenge of Foreign Fighter Returnees". Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. 33 (3): 292–312. doi:10.1177/1043986217697872.
3. 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. Research into foreign fighter activity has been marked by a lack of common terminology between and among academics, policymakers, and journalists. With an expanding range of scholarly work on foreign fighters and non-state armed groups operating transnationally, generating a meaningful debate on foreign fighter mobilization and persistence requires a shared understanding of terms for discourse.