Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

by Daniel Byman

Book Overview

Ever since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, fighters from abroad have journeyed in ever-greater numbers to conflict zones in the Muslim world to defend Islam from-in their view-infidels and apostates. The phenomenon recently reached its apogee in Syria, where the foreign fighter population quickly became larger and more diverse than in any previous conflict.

In Road Warriors, Daniel Byman provides a sweeping history of the jihadist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190646519
• ISBN13: 9780190646516
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"