Foreign fighter

A foreign fighter is someone who travels abroad to participate in an armed conflict, or fights for a country of which he or she is not a national, though different definitions have been used by different journalists, policymakers, and researchers, depending on what distinctions they've wished to make.

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

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