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Will Family Held Hostage by the Taliban Ever Recover?

Op Ed in The Daily Beast by Anne Speckhard Coleman endured rape, the murder of...
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The Psychological Ordeals of Hostages: American Hostage Caitlan Coleman Endured Rape, Murder of her Child and a Terrifying Rescue—to What Outcome?

Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here U.S. officials announced this week that American hostage, Caitlan Coleman...
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CUBS OF THE CALIPHATE

Online article on Vice, covering an HBO Documentary, “Cubs of the Caliphate.” Anne Speckhard quotedOnline...
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ICSVE – Update from the President’s Corner

By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) is an...
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Winning against al-Qaeda and ISIS: The Case for Combining Deradicalization with Disengagement Approaches in Prison and Community Programs Addressing Former and Current Members of Militant Jihadi Groups

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

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

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