Road warriors : foreign fighters in the armies of Jihad / Daniel Byman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byman, Daniel, 1967- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorists--Recruiting.

Terrorists.

Terrorism--Prevention.

Terrorism.

Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Jihad.

Physical Description:

x, 382 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Road Warriors" is a history of the modern jihadist movement, detailing the lives and struggles of foreigners who left their homes to wage jihad in another country. Some died there, while others became professional fighters, going from one war to the next. Still others sought to return home or to the United States and Europe, some to peaceful retirement but a deadly few to conduct terrorist attacks. This book shows how governments have tried to fight the group and assesses what worked and what needs to be done.

Contents:

Why do foreign fighters matter?

The prophet : Abdullah Azzam and the anti-Soviet jihad in

Barbaros: the red beard

The trainer : Ali Mohammad and Afghanistan in the 1990s

Chechnya and the sword of Islam

Hubris and nemesis : the Chechen foreign fighters overreach

The slaughterer : Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi and ascendant Iraqi Jihad (2003-2006)

The dreamer : Abu Ayyub al-Masri and the self-destruction of the Iraqi Jihad

The gadfly : Omar Hammami

John the Beatle and the Syrian Civil War

The facilitator : Amer Azizi and the rise of Jihadist terrorism in Europe

America squares off against the Legion

How to stop foreign fighters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-357) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Byman, Daniel, 1967- author. Road warriors

ISBN:

9780190646516

0190646519

OCLC:

1049574981