Those Who Choose to Fight the Islamic State: Autobiographical Accounts of Western Volunteers

This article is a qualitative study of anti-IS fighters who have traveled from the West to join the military struggle in Syria and Iraq. while earlier studies have mainly analyzed open sources (i.e. social media or journalist’s reports), this article is based on an in-depth analysis of eight autobio...

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Main Author: Larsson, Göran (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cass 2022
In: Terrorism and political violence
Year: 2022, Volume: 34, Issue: 8, Pages: 1758-1773
Further subjects:B YPG
B YPJ
B Anti-IS fighters
B Violence
B Peshmerga
B Iraq
B autobiographies
B Kurdish
B Syria
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