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As Islamic State militants have strengthened their hold on Iraq and Syria, a number of young westerners have travelled to the front lines to join their ranks.
Many of these men and women appear to have grown up with ordinary backgrounds. So what is it that drives children of the west to take up arms with a ruthless group of extremists?
"Most of these young men and women have these torn identities — partly in the west, partly in the east," says Fawaz Gerges, Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. "They really don’t have an anchor, they don't have a stable identity. Their identity is torn." Read more...
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