... Middle East or training camps, feel an obligation to contribute in jihad like their colleagues who travelled to the battlefield in the Middle East. Likewise, the increase of islamophobia and growing popularity of right-wing organisations and parties in Europe will affect radicalisation of alienated Muslim converts.
Islamic State Volunteers
Recruitment and return
The leading jihadist organisations such as Al Qaeda and
ISIS have expressed their support for the idea of the Lone Jihad, and
consider it an essential means to fight the enemy in Western countries. For ...
... October 31, 2015. The perpetrators are widely believed to have been a local jihadist group which had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS). The attack happened just one month after the start of the Russian military campaign in Syria.... ... calls himself “Putin’s soldier”.
That said, there are considerable differences between Russia and Western Europe, the principal target of ISIS-inspired or –affiliated attackers. In Russia, Muslims and the Orthodox Christian majority ...
... decisively on the Islamic State (IS) – a proto-state entity that has occupied a large chunk of Iraq's territory.
In fact, the Islamic State now boasts the most efficient terrorist groups, whereas Afghanistan is going through the
déjà vu
... ... 11,000-12,000 foreign fighters in the IS ranks, among them about three thousand from France, Great Britain, Belgium and other European countries
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, who will some day return to their homelands and make up the core of the local Islamist brigades.
Global ...