Baqiya – We will Endure Forever! ISIS Women Shout as they Attack those who Denounce the Group
by Anne Speckhard “Baqiya!” is the battle cry of those who continue to believe in…
Future Fighters of the Islamic State are Adolescents Being Smuggled out of Al-Hol by their Mothers and ISIS Aligned Financial Networks
Mona Thakkar & Anne Speckhard Despite notable repatriation progress in early 2023, involving 14 countries…
ISIS Women Using 13-Year-Old Boys as Sex Slaves To Breed New Fighters
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. While some in camps for foreign ISIS-affiliated women want no more to…
ISIS Women Accused of Turning Teen Boys Into Human Stud Farm in Syria
Anne Speckhard As published in The Daily Beast Two boys have come forward to claim…
Ethical Arguments for the Separation of ISIS Affiliated Male Youth from their Mothers into Rehabilitation Programs
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today The welfare…
Projected Hate: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and White Supremacism
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today It is no secret…
The Disengagement and Deradicalization Debate: Both Are Needed for True Rehabilitation
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg as published in Homeland Security Today Theoretical debates abound regarding…
Are Antifa Activists Achieving Their Goals?
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today In the midst of…
The Three Ps of Amplifying and Accelerating Domestic Extremism in the United States
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg This article was published in Homeland Security Today The question…
The Oath Keepers Wanted a Coup
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today “The Oath Keepers were…
Directed Hate: The Three Stages in Adopting White Supremacist Ideologies
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret As published in Homeland Security Today White supremacist…
The English Voice of ISIS Speaks Out Against the Group
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today Mohammed Khalifa, also known…
The Challenge of Extremism in the Military Is Not Going Away Without a New Perspective
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg, and TM Garret As published in Military Times This piece is…
How the FBI Nabbed a German ISIS Woman Over 5-Year-Old Girl’s Vile Murder
Anne Speckhard As published in The Daily Beast “You will be caught and prosecuted if…
Who is Accused ISIS Propagandist Mohammed Khalifa?
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today Mohammed Khalifa, otherwise known…
Rescued American Girl, 8, Says She Was Beaten and Abused in ISIS Camp
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in The Daily Beast The Tennessee-born child has…
New National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism Is a Big Step in the Right Direction
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today “I just needed some…
Which Lessons Learned from the War on Terror Can Help Us Confront Domestic Terrorism?
Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today “I was happy and just felt accepted.…
Effective Deterrence for Terrorism in Canada in a New Decade
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today What is the Violent…
How Do Those Vulnerable to Terror Recruitment Respond to YouTube Counter-Narrative Videos?
Anne Speckhard, Maha Ghazi and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today YouTube, first…
Incels, Autism, Violent Extremism and the Case of Alek Minassian
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today “The incel rebellion has…
Gone with the “Flow.” An analysis of the psychological drivers of Western women’s radicalisation
Anna Zizola From the book “Women on the Verge of Jihad. The Hidden Pathways towards…
A Glimpse Inside Incel Ideology
Anne Speckhard, Molly Ellenberg and Alexander Ash As published in Homeland Security Today: In recent…
A Proud Boy Capitol Rioter’s Story
Anne Speckhard The claims made by the subject of this article have been disputed by…
What Incels Can Tell Us About Isolation, Resentment, and Terror Designations
Anne Speckhard, Jesse Morton, Molly Ellenberg, Naama Kates, Alexander Ash and Ken Reidy As published…
Trump vs Biden: Policies countering terrorism and violent extremism
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in TRENDS Research: As Joe Biden prepares to take…
Can the Case of Samantha Elhassani Be a Positive Example for Repatriation of Other ISIS Wives?
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Samantha Elhassani, an American woman…
European Attacks and the Uproar Over Hate Speech as ISIS Virtual Caliphate Continues to Reign
Anne Speckhard, Mona Thakkar and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: A gruesome beheading…
Qatar Takes a Major Step Toward a Freer Society
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: On November 3, as the…
Will Upcoming Trials of ISIS Women in Northeast Syria Speed Up Repatriations of Some?
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: The head of the Autonomous…
ISIS Death in SDF Prison Raises Questions About Repatriation Before They Face Death
Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: “I am a mother whose son went to…
How Men and Women Were Drawn to the Hyper-Gendered ISIS Caliphate
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: At the International Center for…
Jesse Morton: A Story of Trauma and Radicalization
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: The impact of trauma on…
Is Turkey a Bad Actor in Regard to ISIS Prisoners Being Held in SDF Territory?
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: According to our ICSVE research interviews…
Report: Can an ISIS Terrorist be Rehabilitated and Reintegrated into Society?
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Debates across the world are…
The Security Risk Posed by ISIS Women Smuggling Their Way Out of Camp Hol
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: While a debate rages in…
Lessons from Chernobyl, Terrorism on Dealing with Mental Health Challenges of COVID-19
Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: With COVID-19 we are dealing with an invisible…
The Curious Case of ISIS’s Recent Audio Diatribe About Qatar
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: In an unusual twist,…
Finland’s Challenges Facing Potential Repatriation of ISIS Detainees
Anne Speckhard and Gabriel Sjöblom-Fodor As published in Homeland Security Today: The northern country of…
Inside the Sisterhood Springing Jihadis from Jail
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in The Daily Beast : “Do you know any…
Recruiting from Beyond the Grave: A European Follows Anwar al-Awlaki Into ISIS
Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: “I was born in Somalia, in Mogadishu,” Ibn…
Kimberly Pullman: A Canadian Woman Lured Over the Internet to the ISIS Caliphate
As published in Homeland Security Today: “If I was going to die at least I could…
ISIS in Their Own Words
ICSVE is proud to announce our newest publication in the Journal of Strategic Security ISIS…
Leaked Document Reveals EU in Talks with Syrian Democratic Forces About the Fate of EU ISIS Detainees
Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: Last week ICSVE researchers were in Brussels to…
PERSPECTIVE: Ireland’s Lisa Smith Is a Test Run on Repatriation of ISIS Women
By Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: The recent return of Irish ISIS wife,…
PERSPECTIVE: What are the Legal and Moral Issues and Repercussions of the U.S. Assassination of Soleimani?
By Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: Last week’s U.S. airstrike on Iranian general…
PERSPECTIVE: U.S.- Iran Proxy Battles in Iraq and the Struggle for a Coherent Foreign Policy
As published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad was overrun today by…
Stopping the Next London Bridge Attack: How to Reduce Risks Posed by Terror Parolees
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard This past week a deadly stabbing attack…
British-Born Jack Letts Discusses Mental Illness and His Path to ISIS
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard “I used to want to [explode myself]…
Is Turkey Fueling a New Jihad in Northeast Syria?
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard With the October 9th Turkish onslaught…
Syria’s Budding Democracy Is Being Destroyed, But It’s Not Too Late To Save It
As published in The Daily Caller: by Anne Speckhard Over the past two years I’ve…
Baghdadi Just Confirmed ISIS ‘Martyrdom’ Narrative, Ensuring ISIS Will Live
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard To ISIS supporters around the globe,…
An ISIS Bride on the Run
By Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: President Trump had only days earlier…
Imprisoned ISIS Wives and Children Have Nowhere to Run To, Nowhere to Hide
As the Turks and Syrians close in from opposite directions, these women and their children…
Who are the Real Terrorists in North East Syria?
by Anne Speckhard Brussels: Earlier this week President Trump abruptly changed course and green-lighted a…
“Fake News” and the Trump Betrayal of our Kurdish Allies
by Anne Speckhard Athens: On October 9th, 2019, with a “nod” from President Trump—given via…
Kurds Have Been Preparing for Trump’s Betrayal—With a Vengeance
As published in the Daily Beast by Anne Speckhard Late Sunday night in Washington, the…
Who Are the ISIS Fighters in Custody, and How Can They Be Repatriated?
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci BERLIN: Turkey is…
SDF Needs Our Help Now as Another Woman in Camp Hol Killed by ISIS Enforcers
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci One woman was…
Waiting for the Return of the Islamic State Caliphate among ISIS Enforcers in al Hol, Ain Issa and Roj Camps in Syria
As published in Homeland Security Today: By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci ROJAVA, Syria - “When…
Perspective: Trump’s Warning to Europe Accentuates Need for Countries to Repatriate ISIS Detainees
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci “We have thousands…
With International Help, SDF Can Lead in Prepping ISIS Fighters for Prosecution, Rehabilitation
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci ICSVE were invited experts speaking…
Enacting Western Justice in Regard to Western ISIS Cadres, their Spouses and Children
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci The problem of…
The ISIS ‘Honey Trap’ to Catch Recruiter Deso Dogg and the Rogue FBI Translator
As published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci Of all the love…
ISIS Fighter Claims Attack Plot Via Mexico, Underscoring Border Vulnerability
As published in Homeland Security Today By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci The vulnerability of…
Is Iran Testing Trump With Little Attacks in Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf?
As published in The Daily Beast by Dr. Anne Speckhard and Dr. Ardian Shajkovci BAGHDAD—The sound…
Real Voices from the Caliphate Talk Back to Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
As published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci “You hear rumors,…
ISIS Claims the Easter Sunday Bombings in Sri Lanka. Here’s Why We Should Have Seen Them Coming.
As published at Daily Beast. by Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci The Islamic State terror…
ICSVE Intervention on the Issue of ISIS Children Returning Home at the OSCE Wide Counter Terrorism Conference
The OSCE wide Counter Terrorism Conference - Taking Stock of Efforts to Prevent and Counter Terrorism…
The ISIS Spy Who Saved Baghdad from 30 Bombing Missions and Fortune Teller who Helped Trap an ISIS Leader
As published in Homeland Security Today: By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci BAGHDAD: In both…
Children of ISIS Mothers Are Dying in Front of their Eyes in Detention Camps
As published in Homeland Security Today Four children, one the newborn of ISIS joiner Shamima…
ICSVE Concerns for the Welfare of a Newborn Child of a Detained Former ISIS Member
This is a letter sent to the government in response to a request of Dr.…
Terrorists’ Use of Drones Promises to Extend Beyond Caliphate Battles
As published in Homeland Security Today By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci Unmanned and remote…
Observing the Defeat of ISIS in Syria: Gone in 30 Days or Likely to Return?
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today Rojava, Syria – In the…
ISIS Smuggler: Sleeper Cells and ‘Undead’ Suicide Bombers Have Infiltrated Europe
Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci, & Hamid Sebaly as published in the Daily Beast ROJAVA, Syria—Europe…
Is ISIS still Alive and Well on the Internet?
As published in Homeland Security Today Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci With the collapse of the so-called “Islamic State” in…
Happy Holidays from ICSVE!
From the President’s Corner: 2018 has been an exciting and eventful year for the International…
Selling out our Allies in Syria
Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today “We have defeated ISIS in Syria,” Donald…
The roles of women in supporting, joining, intervening in and preventing violent extremism in Sandjak
Analysis of the Drivers of Violent Extremism in the Sandjaregionwith a Focus on Women’s Roles,…
Using Counter Narrative Campaigns on Facebook to “Break the ISIS Brand” in Iraq
by Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci & Neima Izadi as published in Homeland Security Today PDF…
ISIS Women: Victims, Criminals, or Both?
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci As Published in The Washington Examiner The Syrian civil uprising,…
In Legal Wrangling Over ISIS Families, Should Anyone Be Allowed Home?
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published October 31, 2018 in Homeland Security Today…
After a New Massacre, Charges That ISIS Is Operating With Assad and the Russians
The slaughter in the Druze region of Syria cost hundreds of lives last month. It…
The Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. PDF here This paper was originally presented at…
The Family that Slays Together – Mother’s Deadly Day: She Blew Up Herself and Her Two Girls to Murder Christians
The deadly attacks during Sunday services in Indonesia were the work of a whole family.…
ISIS – When Serving Terrorism is an “All in the Family” Affair – How to Recover the Lost Children and Spouses of ISIS
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. This paper was presented at the 2018 OSCE-wideCounter-Terrorism Conference…
Who Will Rescue American Babies from ISIS?
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. When it comes to American children taken into ISIS, it seems the…
Will ISIS Live on in Iraq?
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in The Hill After announcing the defeat…
How can Hollywood help fight ISIS and similar terrorist groups?
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here BAGHDAD - The International Center for the Study of Violent…
Wanted Dead or Alive: The Frustrating, Failing Hunt for ISIS Leader Baghdadi
Americans and Russians have converged on the Euphrates valley where the ISIS “caliphate” is making…
Joshua Boyle Charged With Assault: Was He Re-Enacting the Traumas of Taliban Captivity?
A professor of psychiatry and expert on terrorism explores the traumas that may have led…
How do you Deprogram a Country After ISIS is Defeated?
The final victory over the so-called Islamic State won’t be won until its ideas have…
Will Hostages Taken by the Taliban Ever Recover?
ICSVE's research report appearing today in the Daily Beast Coleman endured rape, the murder of her…
ICSVE – Update from the President’s Corner
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) is an…
She Doesn’t Regret Torturing Women for ISIS
ANNE SPECKHARD AHMET YAYLA The Daily Beast 09.01.17 1:00 AM ET PDF A teenage girl…
Making a Monster: How I Became an ISIS Bride
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. As published in the Daily Beast, August…
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 ‘Yusuf’…
Summer of Terror Approaches: What to Do to Counter Martyrdom Attacks?
By Ahmet S Yayla A series of Salafist, jihadi terrorist attacks erupting at…
Al Qaeda Makes its Move with a Video Primer by Hamza bin Laden
Significance of the new video, “Advice for Martyrdom-Seekers in the West” By Ahmet S…
ICSVE’s New “Breaking the ISIS Brand” Video Clip – Today is the Female Slave Market Day in ad-Dawlah
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Abu Abdullah, a Syrian ISIS defector, was interviewed in Turkey by the…
Telegram: the Mighty Application that ISIS Loves
By Ahmet S. Yayla & Anne Speckhard Download the PDF ISIS has been the most…
The Daily Harvester: How ISIS Disseminates Propaganda over the Internet Despite Counter-Measures and How to Fight Back
Lorand Bodo, M.A. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF As ISIS is rapidly losing…
The Truck as a “Just” Tool of Terror – What we can Learn from the Stockholm, Sweden Attack
Louisa Tarras-Wahlberg It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Thousands of…
Is ISIS Moving its Capital from Raqqa to Mayadin in Deir ez-Zor?
by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF There is a…
Not All ISIS Returnees are Defectors
CNN has been hawking this story of Younes Delefortrie as From Altar Boy to ISIS…
Why Taking the Tabqa Dam is Important in the Fight against ISIS and Retaking of Raqqa
by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. This week U.S. Colonel Joseph E. Scrocca,…
Recovery, Rehabilitation & Reintegration of the “Lost” Children Living and Serving Under the Islamic State
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF here Hundreds of thousands of children around the…
Trump’s Immigration Ban is Counterproductive in War on Terror
By Anne Speckhard as published in The Hill My neighbor is a Syrian refugee. Frankly,…
Women’s Roles in Terrorism & Women Fighting Back
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. On International Women’s Day it seems important to recognize strong women…
Appointed or Elected Leaders as Part of the Answer for Addressing Violent Extremism in the Region: A View from Iran
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Iranian Ambassador Hossein Sheikhoislam, currently serving as Advisor to the Foreign…
The Potential Threats Posed by ISIS’s Use of Weaponized Air Drones and How to Fight Back
by Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. and Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Like every other recent technological advancement,…
ISIS and Foreign Fighter Returnees – Prosecute or Raise their Voices against ISIS?
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Grace Wakim “The Chechen fighter next to me shot and…
Inside Iraq: Lasting Effects of Trump’s Travel Ban
by Stefanie Mitchell Sitting here in Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan with my friend,…
To Some, President Trump is the Dajaal
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Lorand Bodo “Trump is the perfect enemy bc [because] the…
“Are You With Us or Against Us?”
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The White House reported in a press conference yesterday that a five-year-old boy…
Religion is not a Legitimate Target for Countering Violent Extremism
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Among his first acts, our new President is taking steps to limit…
New “Breaking the ISIS Brand” Video Clip Released Today – Join or Defect from Ad-Dawlah?
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. As ISIS is rapidly being defeated on the Syrian and Iraqi battlefield,…
Possibilities of Peace-Building in Iraq: Questions of Deradicalization and Reintegration amidst Sectarian Conflicts
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Stefanie Mitchell Daily gains against ISIS in Iraq and the imminent…
The ISIS Istanbul Reina Night Club Attack: A Lesson in What Happens when One Invites Cannibals to Dinner
By Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. ISIS attacked again in Turkey,…
What it Means that the Russian Ambassador to Turkey was Assassinated by a Radicalized Militant Jihadi off-duty Turkish Police Officer
By Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The Russian Ambassador to Turkey, Andrey…
Abu Qatada: The “Spiritual Father” of al Qaeda in Europe reflecting on Terrorism and the Future of the Middle East as Trump takes the U.S. Presidency
Competing Interests, Civilian Confusion, Conspiracy Theories and Chaos in the Assault on Mosul
Grace Wakim and Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. While, Mosul, the last stronghold of ISIS is being…
ISIS’s New Threat: Possible Use of WMDs
By Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Days before the coalition forces began…
Portrait of Turkey’s ISIS Leader Halis Bayancuk: Alias Abu Hanzala
By Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. Halis Bayancuk is the leader of ISIS in Turkey.…
ISIS Claims the Minnesota Stabbing Spree but those behind the New York City and New Jersey bombs still remain in Shadows
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The New York city explosion this week—injuring at least twenty-nine—and discovery of…
Great Reviews Appearing for ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate adapted for the stage in Zwang des Materials
Paderborn, Germany—artistic director, Katharina Kreuzhage, adapts the book ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist…
Theater meets Real Life with the ISIS Defectors Interviews Project
Theater meets Real Life with the ISIS Defectors Interviews Project Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. &…
Turkey’s July Coup Attempt: “A Gift from God” to a new Authoritarianism
House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats HEARING ON TURKEY AFTER THE…
ISIS’s No. 2 is dead: What it means to the West
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D., contributors Featured in http://thehill.com/ http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/homeland-security/294523-isis-number-two-is-dead-what-it-means-to-the-west Abu…
Aftermath of another ISIS Attack in Gaziantep, Turkey: A Possible New Internal Conflict for Turkey
By Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. On August 20, 2016, ISIS…
Homegrown ISIS Inspired and Directed Terror Attacks—the New Normal?
Homegrown ISIS Inspired and Directed Terror Attacks—the New Normal? Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet…
No Coincidences in Terrorist Attacks
No Coincidences in Terrorist Attacks By Dr. Ahmet S. Yayla and Dr. Anne Speckhard ISIS…
How ISIS Defectors Can Help Us Beat Terror
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet Yayla, Ph.D. (TIME Magazine article) They can help reveal…
How do we Defeat ISIS? Less Bombs, More Social
ISIS has gone unchallenged in one arena for far too long and the longer we…
ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate Book Launch
ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate Book Launch Please see our ISIS Defectors:…
ISIS Claims Execution of an American in Turkey
ISIS Claims Execution of an American in Turkey Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne…
Inside ISIS Chat Rooms: ICSVE obtains ISIS Video Calling for Attacks with Vehicles
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet Yayla, Ph.D. Celebrations and calls for more attacks to…
Second ISIS Suicide Attack Team Plotting Major Attack in Turkey
Second ISIS Suicide Attack Team Plotting Major Attack was Caught June 3rd in Sanliurfa, Turkey…
Hold On, America; The War Is Not Over and You Have Yet to Win
“Hold On, America; The War Is Not Over and You Have Yet to Win”…
Alarms Raised over Safeguarding Professional Ethics in FBI proposed “Shared Responsibility Committees” addressing Potentially Radicalized Individuals
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Murky federal plans, and odd bedfellows between law enforcement and counseling professionals,…
ISIS’s Revenues include Sales of Oil to the al-Assad Regime
For months now disaffected Syrian, ISIS defectors we have been interviewing in our ISIS Defectors…
Former German Soldiers Now Fighting for ISIS
A report written by the German Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) indicated that twenty-nine former German…
Indian Guru offers ISIS an Olive Branch and Receives a Photograph of a Beheaded Man in Return
In Spring of 2007 I was seated on a flight into Baghdad International Airport, on…
The Hypnotic Power of ISIS Imagery in Recruiting Western Youth
A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s a commonly accepted piece of wisdom—one that…
ISIS Sex Slave Trade
ISIS Sex Slave Trade Brokered in Gaziantep, Turkey ISIS has been generating millions of dollars…
ISIS Once Again Silences its Enemies in Turkey
Once again ISIS cadres have penetrated from Syria into Turkey and carried out an assault…
Khalid Zerkani
Khalid Zerkani: Terrorist Instigator “He is a sorcerer… He is Satan.” Hawa Keita, an immigrant…
Mohamed Abrini Arrested in Brussels
Mohamed Abrini Arrested in Brussels: How to Stop the Flow of Europeans into the ISIS Cult…
ISIS Continues to Agitate for European Attacks
ISIS Continues to Agitate for European Attacks: Is Germany Next? ISIS has issued a statement…
Why? Pourquoi? Warum?
Do the Terrorists Who Blow Themselves Up Even Know Why they are Doing it? When…
Brussels Terrorist Attacks
Brussels Terrorist Attacks at Airport and European Parliament Brussels attacks. I was headed out to…
ISIS Recruitment of Western Women
In the past two decades I have interviewed almost five hundred terrorists, extremists, and in…
ISIS Operative Salah Abdeslam
ISIS Operative Salah Abdeslam: A Not so True-Believer Terrorist A key member of the ISIS…
American ISIS Defector
Mohamad Jamal Khweis & the Threat Posed by “Clean Skin” Terrorists: Unanswered Questions and Confirmations…
Alleged ISIS Operative and Paris Attacker
Salah Abdelslam, Found Hiding out in Molenbeek, Belgium Salah Abdelslam—believed to be one of the…
Deepening Wounds and Recent Gains in the Fight with ISIS in Syria
The Syrian army in recent weeks backed by Iranians, Hezbollah and Russian support, has gained…
Tunisian Foreign Fighter Uprising Inside ISIS Occurs Today in Raqqa
A huge internal fight inside ISIS occurred today in Raqqa in which two hundred members…
ISIS Defectors Interviews Project
ISIS Defectors Interviews Project U.S. State Department Foreign Press Briefing I’ve been interviewing terrorists for…
ISIS Defector Reports on Sale of organs Harvested from ISIS held “Slaves”
In February of 2015 Iraqi Ambassador, Mohamed Alhakim requested the UN Security Council to investigate…
The Lethal Cocktail of Terrorism
I recently returned from an interview trip in Belgium, the European country with the highest…
Brides of ISIS
The Internet Seduction of Western Females into ISIS Shoot the Women First is the title…
Discrediting ISIS from the Inside
Using Stories from Recent ISIS Defectors - Why they Joined, What they Saw, Why they…
Terror: Whom to Fear
I have interviewed hundreds of terrorists and their close associates in places as far-flung as…
Mothers as Terrorists
When Mothers Kill And Die to Attain so-Called "Martyrdom" status Twenty-seven-year old Tashfeen Malik, the…
Eyewitness Accounts from Recent Defectors from Islamic State
Eyewitness Accounts from Recent Defectors from Islamic State: Why They Joined, What They Saw, Why…
The Lure of Becoming an ISIS Bride
Samra Kesinovic, 17, and her friend Sabina Selimovic–two beautiful, young Bosnian immigrant girls who left…
THE LONG ARM OF ISIS
