foreign fighter
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A foreign fighter is someone who travels abroad to participate in a non-international armed conflict or fight for a country of which he or she is not a national.{{cite journal |last1=Asal |first1=Victor |last2=Malet |first2=David |title=Nobody More Terrible than the Desperate: Conflict Conditions and Rebel Demand for Foreign Fighters |journal=Studies in Conflict & Terrorism |date=2021 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1080/1057610X.2021.1961715}}{{cite journal |last1=Cragin |first1=R. Kim |title=The Challenge of Foreign Fighter Returnees |journal=Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice |date=2017 |volume=33 |issue=3 |pages=292–312 |doi=10.1177/1043986217697872}}{{cite journal |last1=Malet |first1=David |title=Foreign Fighter Mobilization and Persistence in a Global Context |journal=Terrorism and Political Violence |date=2015 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=454–473 |doi=10.1080/09546553.2015.1032151}}
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