Exporting Jihad

By Anita Rice

Anita Rice is a senior editor at the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN). She has previously reported on domestic and international affairs for the BBC and Al Jazeera International.

With minds focused on the number of Western European foreign fighters joining ISIS and al-Qaeda affiliate al-Nusra in the wake of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks, violent jihadism in the Western Balkans has not received the same level of international attention.

Yet, as the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) recently established in the first regional research of its kind, the number of jihadists that have travelled to Syrian and Iraqi battlefields from key Balkan states is striking, given the relatively small population size of each country.

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