The regional and country analysis pieces have been produced by Balkan journalists as part of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, Strengthening Media Reporting and Public Understanding of Extremism in the Western Balkans project. The project is entirely focused on the radicalisation and recruitment of jihadi fighters for the conflicts in Syria and Iraq in the following Balkan states: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia.