ISIS Defectors Interviews Project U.S. State Department Foreign Press Briefing I’ve been interviewing terrorists for the past few decades and at this point have talked to almost five hundred terrorists, extremists, and in the case of dead suicide terrorists—their family…
In February of 2015 Iraqi Ambassador, Mohamed Alhakim requested the UN Security Council to investigate the deaths of twelve doctors in Mosul, Iraq who he claimed had been killed by ISIS after refusing to remove organs from dead bodies. He…
Voice of America Turkey article featuring the research of ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Serhan Akif Akyıldız February 26, 2016 WASHINGTON — Washington’daki Johns Hopkins Üniversitesi’nde düzenlenen “Cihat İçin Toplama: IŞİD’in Büyüsü” adlı…
I recently returned from an interview trip in Belgium, the European country with the highest per capita rate of foreign fighters going to Syria, young men and women who travel there sometimes for good, but mainly to join groups like…
Voice of America News article by Jamie Dettmer quoting ICSVE research of Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. February 03, 2016 ROME — The widow of an Islamic State fighter has voiced rare open criticism of…
Inverse article quoting ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Sarah Sloat January 25, 2016 Psychologists are banned from developing interrogation techniques after a long history in national security. By Sarah Sloat on January 25, 2016Filed Under Politics Officials from the Department of Defense and…
The Internet Seduction of Western Females into ISIS Shoot the Women First is the title of a 1991 book by Eileen MacDonald based on her interviews of female terrorists and originated in advice purportedly given to Germany’s GSG 9 anti-terrorist…
CBC Radio interview of ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Anna Maria Tremonti January 05, 2016 Researchers with a group called the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism have been tracking down ISIS defectors to learn about real…
Vox news article by Zack Beauchamp quoting ICSVE research of Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. December 23, 2015 ISIS territory, from everything we hear, is an absolutely miserable place to live. This should be a…
AU World interview of ICSVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Matthew Hall December 23, 2015 IN 2003, eight young Palestinian footballers killed 34 people and injured dozens more in a series of co-ordinated suicide attacks over the course of eight…