ICSVE’s Anne Speckhard on BBC World News
ICSVE's Anne Speckhard appears on BBC World News to discuss the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka in April 2019. https://youtu.be/ZsGjwL3xagw https://youtu.be/sxiyYVu_M18
World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa
ICSVE's Dr. Anne Speckhard spoke at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa in the panel entitled " Overview on World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa As we enter a new phase…
Terror in Sri Lanka
https://youtu.be/EXecBNPif3w ICSVE's Dr. Anne Speckhard appears on CNN discussing the terror attacks in Sri Lanka.
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 group has claimed involvement in the horrific Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 320 people at Catholic services and in luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. In…
Born in America, Hoda Muthana Shares her Story of Joining and Escaping From the Islamic State Caliphate
As Published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci ROJAVA, Syria: The belief in an afterlife and the fear of eternal damnation is one way to manipulate a believer. Such manipulative tactics worked on Hoda Muthana, a…
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 as well as Violent Extremism and Radicalization that lead to Terrorism in the OSCE area is being held these last two days in Bratislava, Slovakia. ICSVE…
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 Syria and Iraq ISIS cadres that have managed to escape have quietly melted into the landscape. Many have returned to their villages to live under…
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 Begum, have recently died in one YPG held detention camp, raising questions about why underage Western children are being held in Syria rather than returned…
PERSPECTIVE: U.S. Must Back Semi-Autonomous Rojava Region Post-ISIS
as published in Homeland Security Today In 2012, the Northeastern Syrian area referred to as Democratic Federation of Rojava – Northern Syria (also as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria - NES), which consists of the sub-regions of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates,…
The ISIS Ambassador to Turkey
By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today In the complicated relationship between the government of Turkey and ISIS, it’s unclear how much of the relationship was direct and formal, as opposed to support coming from…