https://youtu.be/op6SPsb38SI Anne Speckhard The Abu Musab al Zarqawi Cubs of the Caliphate Camp is the 52nd counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 15-year-old Syrian Ibn Omar, who was interviewed in November 2015, in southern Turkey,…
https://youtu.be/E1I98cD_lOg Anne Speckhard It is Jihad is the 74th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 27-year-old Abu Taha, an Iraqi ISIS guard. Abu Taha was interviewed in 2017 in prison in Baghdad by Anne Speckhard.…
https://youtu.be/pI9hdDRDvGk Anne Speckhard Swearing my Bayat to the Islamic State in Fallajuah is the 73rd counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 46-year-old Iraqi Abu Bassim. He was interviewed in 2017 in an Iraqi prison in…
https://youtu.be/1IcyUKmS7sk Anne Speckhard Making Hijrah the Islamic State Caliphateis the 83rdcounter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 31-year-old Belgian, Beatrice, who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in August of 2018 in a detention facility in…
https://youtu.be/q9ZTmYyN6eY by Anne Speckhard The Helpers of the Islamic State Caliphate is the 111th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 29-year-old Belgian, Abu Usama al Belgique who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in August of 2018…
https://youtu.be/phZsHWBzcbE Anne Speckhard A Belgian Family in the Islamic State is the 77th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 22-year-old Belgian, Salma who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in August of 2018 in a detention…
Al Shabaab, the Somali based terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda, reached its long arm into Kenya again on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. According to the police, the attacks began around three pm in which gunmen jumped out of a…
https://youtu.be/z5nao8DZZIw by Anne Speckhard Often, realities of war differ from war stories and war-related reporting we see on TV or social media platforms, such as YouTube or Facebook. Many who joined the conflict in Syria, like thirty-one-year-old, Abu Hilmi, a Kosovar…
https://youtu.be/l5O4m3t2YGA Anne Speckhard The Clear Path into the Islamic State is the 117th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 20-year-old Iraqi Abu Ayad who was interviewed in 2017 in an Iraqi prison in Baghdad, Iraq,…
As published in Homeland Security Today Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci With the collapse of the so-called “Islamic State” in Iraq, and much of Syria, an immediate corresponding and steady decline occurred in ISIS’ strategic communication and online propaganda activities. However, as this article illustrates,…