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The IS fighters from Trinidad and Tobago
The island nation of Trinidad and Tobago is best-known to many people as a tourist location and home to one of the biggest Carnivals. But what is less well known is that it also is a source of recruitment for so-called Islamic State.
Andy Knight, professor of International Relations in the University of Alberta in Canada explains why so many people from the Caribbean nation have ended up fighting in Syria.
(Picture: The downtown area of Port of Spain, the capital of Trinidad and Tobago. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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