Today's Wild Geese: Foreign Fighters in the GWOT

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Recommended by Professor Bruce Hoffman via Twitter. First a long Buzzfeed report on the smuggling along the Turkish border:

US officials say most of ISIS fighters have died on the battlefield. Smugglers along the Syria-Turkey border say many have escaped.

Link:https://www.buzzfeed.com/mikegiglio/...haps-to-fight?

Secondly, a wider international viewpoint on the "hot potato" by a NDU staffer; which opens with an editorial passage:

As the Caliphate collapses, many of its foreign volunteers are fleeing Iraq and Syria. A lot of ink has been spilled (some by me, in fact) on the problem of foreign fighters returning home. However, some of these fighters end up in a third country—not in the Caliphate, but not home either—that is not prepared for the problem.

Link:https://lawfareblog.com/foreign-fighter-hot-potato