New america is a think tank in washington dc. The group posted a discussion on how to Counter Terrorism recruitment and how to link them to economic inequality in the middle east. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon and welcome to good america. On behalf of our president , Vice President , thank you very much for coming. I am a senior fellow here at new america. Discuss aare here to new paper by my colleagues. It is entitled all jihad is l oca. L. Im really excited about this paper because isis and al qaeda and the recruitment of of jihadis is something we talk about a lot. You often see people on stages debating how this comes about, what do people go join isis and so on. Generally the conversation ranges from i think this, you think that, and i emote this, and you emote that. What is exciting today is we have data, which they will talk about in some detail. Let me talk about my colleagues, and i will let them give an overview of the paper. Nate rosenblatt is a security fellow,
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A July 20 report from New America, a think tank in Washington, DC, examined more than 4,000 registration records of fighters who joined the Islamic State between mid-2013 and mid-2014.
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By devoting resources to areas of concentrated recruitment, the Biden administration can reduce the scope of future Middle East conflicts along with the likelihood that U.S. troops will once again be drawn into them.
From 2013 to 2015, the Islamic State recruited an estimated 40,000 foreign fighters from more than one hundred countries. This is a flashy statistic but also a misleading one because the vast majority of these fighters came from relatively few places, with prominent Middle East locales including northern Morocco, eastern Libya, central Saudi Arabia, and areas dispersed across Tunisia. Strikingly, 75 percent of IS foreign fighter recruits from the Middle East originated from areas constituting just 11 percent of its total population. Despite the current ebb in foreign fighters, they represent an enduring challenge for the United States and the region.