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The European fighters who battled Isis – and were abandoned by their governments

13 July 2019

9:00 AM

13 July 2019

9:00 AM

Foreign fighters are returning from the battlefield — not Islamists but the Americans, Europeans and South Americans who fought to rid the world of Isis. But for all their bravery, their homecoming is a tricky one because their home countries do not want them back.

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