foreign fighters

ISIS terror suspects planned Kosovo bomb attacks, assaults in France, Belgium

Bujar Behrami and other suspected ISIS jihadists have been charged in Pristina on suspicion of planning attacks in Kosovo, France and Belgium

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YPG announces arrest of 3 ISIS foreign fighters in northern Syria

The YPG announced the arrest of three men it said were foreign fighters with ISIS, including Canadian recruiter Muhammad Ali, a German man and a Turkish national

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Italy police search home, seize passport of suspected YPG foreign fighter

Police carried out searches targeting three Italians on Sardinia and seized the passport of one subject in an investigation into suspected involvement with the Syrian YPG

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Alleged Italian ISIS member captured in Syria may match known foreign fighter profile

Kurdish fighters in northern Syria detained an alleged Italian member of Islamic State as he was trying to flee across the border to Turkey with his wife and children

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Passport to jihad: European foreign fighters joining ISIS in the Philippines

Robert Postings takes an in-depth look at the Philippines as a destination for would-be Islamic State foreign fighters as ISIS loses core territory

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First video of Bangladesh al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan appears online

The first video apparently showing Bangladeshi al-Qaeda fighters launching attacks in Afghanistan against US and Afghan forces was posted online last week

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Australia revokes citizenship of 5 dual nationals for joining ISIS

Australia has revoked the citizenship of five people who traveled to Iraq and Syria to join ISIS, bringing the number of people stripped of their citizenship to six

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Macedonia arrests 7 accused of fighting with ISIS in Iraq and Syria

Police in Macedonia have arrested seven people accused of joining ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the interior ministry said

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Iraq sentences German woman and French man to life for ISIS membership

An Iraqi court sentenced a German woman and French man both to life in prison terms for joining ISIS

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UK drops charges against former soldier who fought against ISIS with the YPG

A former UK soldier alleged to have fought alongside YPG forces battling ISIS in Iraq and Syria had terrorism charges against him dropped

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