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Quick comment: Rodger Shanahan on foreign fighters

Quick comment: Rodger Shanahan on foreign fighters
Published 14 Sep 2016   Follow @EmmaMConnors

In this quick comment, the Lowy Institute's Rodger Shanahan discusses how the uneasy co-operation between the West and Russia and Iran in the fight against Islamic State needs to continue to help combat the threat posed by foreign fighters leaving Syria and Iraq. Dr Shanahan and Lydia Khalil are the authors of a new Lowy Institute Analysis, 'Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq: the day after'.