ABSTRACT

In early 2016, a cache of self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) foreign fighter (FF) documents was leaked and obtained by a few media outlets and academic institutions. One of those institutions was the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR), King’s College London, where I spent the past year and a half as a Visiting Research Fellow. I have taken an in-depth look at all the leaked documents of ISIL foreign fighters who came from Saudi Arabia, whether they were citizens or just residents.