Country Report on Terrrorism in the EU

A major challenge to Europe is the increasing travel of European citizens, mostly young men to and from Syria seeking to join forces opposing the Asad regime. Many of them end up in the ranks of violent extremist groups such as al-Nusrah Front or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). These “foreign fighters” spark increasing concerns, and actions to address them, by European countries worried about the growing number of their citizens travelling to the battlefield and possibly returning radicalized.