Month: August 2017

A person with intense eyes aims a double-barrel shotgun directly at the camera.

Making a Monster: How I Became an ISIS Bride

byÂ Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. As published in the Daily Beast, August...

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The Runaway Bride of ISIS: Transformation a Young Girl with a Dream to a Lethal ISIS Enforcer

A young person wearing a headscarf holds a firearm, with their eyes blacked out for anonymity.

Inside The ISIS Machine Turning Children to ‘Monsters’

Our ICSVE research reported in the Daily Beast 8-25-2017 The little American boy, 10-year-old â€˜Yusufâ€™...

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Beware the Women of ISIS: There Are Many, and They May Be More Dangerous Than the Men

Two hands each holding a gun with a red and blue background split diagonally.

Beware the Women of ISIS: There Are Many, and They May Be More Dangerous Than the Men

ICSVE article published in The Daily Beast and republished in Security Solutions (in two parts...

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The ISIS Prison System: Its Structure, Departmental Affiliations, Processes, Conditions, and Practices of Psychological and Physical Torture

Bride in white gown sitting next to a woman with a red bag.

Analysis of the Drivers of Radicalization and Violent Extremism in Kyrgyzstan, including the Roles of Kyrgyz Women in Supporting, Joining, Intervening in, and Preventing Violent Extremism in Kyrgyzstan