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Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Army of Jihad

by Dan Byman

Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defend Islam from-in their view-infidels and apostates. The phenomenon recently reached its apogee in Syria, where the foreign fighter population quickly became larger and more diverse than in any previou

Publisher

Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

336

ISBN

9780190646516