As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard This past week a deadly stabbing attack occurred in London carried out by 28-year-old Usman Khan, a released prisoner who had been convicted in 2012 on terrorism offenses. Khan had been imprisoned…
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard “I used to want to [explode myself] at one point, believe it or not. Not a vest. I wanted to do it in a car. I said if there’s a chance, I…
Listen on PRI's The World Turkey says it's beginning to deport ISIS members held in detention. That means suspects from the US and several European countries might soon be heading back to their countries of origin. Host Marco Werman speaks…
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard With the October 9th Turkish onslaught into northeast Syria and Turkey’s reliance on Syrian Arab proxy fighters, who have been accused by U.S. Ambassador William Roebuck (Deputy Special Envoy to the…
As published in The Daily Caller: by Anne Speckhard Over the past two years I’ve been going in and out of northeast Syria working in the region controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), visiting the prisons and camps where…
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard To ISIS supporters around the globe, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was a beacon of hope in an extremely troubled world. His words and actions showed millions of Muslims that it might…
By Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: President Trump had only days earlier greenlighted Turkey’s invasion into northeast Syria, when 26-year-old Belgian ISIS wife, Bouchra Abouallal, imprisoned in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Camp Ain Issa, suddenly found…
As the Turks and Syrians close in from opposite directions, these women and their children don’t expect much sympathy, but they don’t want to die. by Anne Speckhard BRUSSELS–“The guards have said if the war comes close, then they will…
by Anne Speckhard Brussels: Earlier this week President Trump abruptly changed course and green-lighted a Turkish incursion into north east Syria with disastrous results. The subsequent invasion has unleashed a hellish nightmare of carnage and chaos in what was a…
by Anne Speckhard Athens: On October 9th, 2019, with a “nod” from President Trump—given via Twitter—the Turkish military began an all-out aerial bombardment and invasion of Northeastern Syria, purportedly to clear the area to create a terrorist-free safety corridor and…