New report reveals why fighters are quitting ISIS

September 22, 2015 04:32

Tens of thousands of people have journeyed to Iraq and Syria to join Islamic State militants in the past few years, but after experiencing the reality of life in the group's territory many have come to regret that decision.

In a new report published this week, the International Center for the Study of Radicalization sheds light on what it calls a "growing phenomenon" of defectors, who are beginning to speak out about why they left the militant organization.

ICSR looked at 58 different instances when people have spoke publicly about defecting from the Islamic State, using the accounts as case studies. The defectors whose stories were analyzed are from seventeen countries, and include seven women. The report finds several consistent narratives about what caused the former fighters to quit.

In some cases, the rationale for leaving the group is disillusionment with the way that the Islamic State is run, rather than a rejection of the militants' ideological extremism that brought the recruits to Iraq and Syria in the first place.

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