Foreign fighters in the Croatian War of Independence

Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also the diaspora,[1] joined the Croatian side.

[1] Many extreme right volunteers from Western Europe, mainly from Germany, joined the HOS.

[2] The Croatian Army's "First International Brigade" based outside Osijek that consisted of 100 men had about half of the ranks being foreigners from France, Canada, Switzerland, Hungary, Portugal, Britain, Australia, the United States and Spain.

There is a veterans organization (Croatian: Udruga Albanaca branitelja Hrvatske u Domovinskom ratu) of these.

It is estimated by that veterans organization that 10,000 ethnic Albanians fought in the Croatian Army, out of whom 87 died.