Noor Waheed is a Senior Research Associate at the Digital Rights Foundation. She has previously worked as a Law and Policy Consultant at Justice Project Pakistan and as a Research Associate at Research Society of International Law where she was also Managing Editor of the RSIL Law Review.

Foreign Terrorist Fighters: Between IHL And The Counter-Terrorism Regime

Prior to 2014, “foreign fighters” and “terrorists” represented separate categories of individuals that fell under the jurisdiction of different international law regimes, namely international humanitarian law and the international counter-terrorism regime. However, after the landmark UNSC Resolution 2178 (2014) was passed in response to the influx of third-state fighters in support of ISIL and Al-Qaeda…