Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: “Coming to ISIS was the best deradicalization I could have.” Bouchra Abouallal, age 26, Belgian ISIS wife The ISIS “Caliphate” at its apex managed to attract approximately 40,000 foreign terrorist…
Anne Speckhard Originally published in Democracy and Security. There has been considerable interest in recent years to study and attempt to understand the motivations, recruitment, psycho-social and cultural patterns of individuals who become terrorists, particularly those among the “militant jihadi”i…
ICSVE Panel Discussion featuring: Oliver N.; Moussa Al-Hassan Diaw - Director DERAD, Austria; and Anne Speckhard, Director ICSVE, was held on 11:00 AM EST on July 22, 2020. https://youtu.be/a8QGf2lGGYA ICSVE’s Anne Speckhard has spent decades interviewing terrorists all over the…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] is notorious for its slick propaganda videos and effectiveness at online recruitment, particularly on social media, of men and women all over…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: According to our ICSVE research interviews with 240 ISIS members, including an ISIS emir who claims to have worked with Turkish military and intelligence, Turkey has long been involved with and supporting…
ICSVE Panel Discussion featuring Yola Wanders, Former Director of the High Security Prison in Vught Netherlands (2009-2020) Gaby Thijssen, Forensic Psychologist Anne Speckhard, Director ICSVE This event was held July 8, 2020, at 11:00 AM EST. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYzWHQ8gS14 Have you ever…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Despite ISIS having been territorially defeated since 2019, the United Nations reported in January of 2020 that 8,000 children of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] remain in the custody of the Syrian Democratic…
ICSVE Panel Discussion featuring Ambassador Peter Galbraith, Beatrice Erikson, and Anne Speckhard, Director ICSVE. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWrVFm5c9YM As of 2019, the Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] was holding approximately 10,000 children of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] in Camp Hol, Camp Ain Issa, and…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Debates across the world are raging, discussing the issues pertaining to the repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] who left their home countries to fight with the Islamic State of…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: While a debate rages in Europe over whether or not ISIS women and their children can be repatriated to their European home countries, some women have been taking things into…