A professor of psychiatry and expert on terrorism explores the traumas that may have led Joshua Boyle to commit alleged assault, sexual assault, and forced confinement. ANNE SPECKHARD 01.03.18 7:12 PM ET (as published in the Daily Beast) Joshua Boyle, a 34-year-old…
The final victory over the so-called Islamic State won’t be won until its ideas have been dismantled and discredited. ANNE SPECKHARD ARDIAN SHAJKOVCI 12.19.17 5:00 AM ET (Originally published in the Daily Beast) BAGHDAD—We arrived here this month just as…
ICSVE's research report appearing today in the Daily Beast Coleman endured rape, the murder of her first child, and a terrifying rescue. A psychologist who has talked to hundreds of hostages looks at the challenges ahead for her family. ANNE SPECKHARD…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) is an action-based non-profit research center that operates the Breaking the ISIS Brand—Counter-Narratives Project, which uses insider voices of ISIS defectors, returnees and prisoners, to denounce the group as well…
ANNE SPECKHARD AHMET YAYLA The Daily Beast 09.01.17 1:00 AM ET PDF A teenage girl from rural Syria dreamed of becoming a doctor, but the war and the so-called Islamic State made her something very different, and very frightening. In part…
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. As published in the Daily Beast, August 31, 2017 PDF here A teenage girl from rural Syria dreamed of becoming a doctor, but the war and the so-called Islamic State made her…
Our ICSVE research reported in the Daily Beast 8-25-2017 The little American boy, 10-year-old ‘Yusuf’ threatening Trump, is one of thousands of children indoctrinated by the so-called Islamic State ANNE SPECKHARD 08.25.17 1:10 PM ET SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq – When a…
By Ahmet S Yayla A series of Salafist, jihadi terrorist attacks erupting at the onset of 2017 Ramadan portends a summer of terror for the West. Britain went to the polls Thursday on the heels of double attacks…
Significance of the new video, “Advice for Martyrdom-Seekers in the West” By Ahmet S Yayla Al Qaeda has stepped out of the shadow of Islamic State, promoting its brand of terror with a new leader and a comprehensive…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Abu Abdullah, a Syrian ISIS defector, was interviewed in Turkey by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism's Ahmet S. Yayla and Anne Speckhard after he escaped from ISIS. Today we release the edited video clip…