When we think of the term 'foreign fighter' our minds immediately go to those of our citizens who left to fight (and kill) with jihadi groups like ISIS o r Al Qaeda. And yet the phenomenon is much older than most realise. There has been an exodus of people from the West who went to Ukraine - to fight on both sides! Oslo-based researcher Kacper Rekawek walks us through who is who in this lethal zoo.
When we think of the term 'foreign fighter' our minds immediately go to those of our citizens who left to fight (and kill) with jihadi groups like ISIS o r Al Qaeda. And yet the phenomenon is much older than most realise. There has been an exodus of people from the West who went to Ukraine - to fight on both sides! Oslo-based researcher Kacper Rekawek walks us through who is who in this lethal zoo.