Brief Reports
The Truck as a “Just” Tool of Terror – What we can Learn from the Stockholm, Sweden Attack
Louisa Tarras-Wahlberg It’s a sunny Friday afternoon in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. Thousands of...
Is ISIS Moving its Capital from Raqqa to Mayadin in Deir ez-Zor?
by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF There is a...
Not All ISIS Returnees are Defectors
CNN has been hawking this story of Younes Delefortrie as From Altar Boy to ISIS...
Why Taking the Tabqa Dam is Important in the Fight against ISIS and Retaking of Raqqa
by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. This week U.S. Colonel Joseph E. Scrocca,...
Recovery, Rehabilitation & Reintegration of the “Lost” Children Living and Serving Under the Islamic State
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF here Hundreds of thousands of children around the...
Trump’s Immigration Ban is Counterproductive in War on Terror
By Anne Speckhard as published in The Hill My neighbor is a Syrian refugee. Frankly,...
Women’s Roles in Terrorism & Women Fighting Back
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. On International Women’s Day it seems important to recognize strong women...
Appointed or Elected Leaders as Part of the Answer for Addressing Violent Extremism in the Region: A View from Iran
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Iranian Ambassador Hossein Sheikhoislam, currently serving as Advisor to the Foreign...
The Potential Threats Posed by ISIS’s Use of Weaponized Air Drones and How to Fight Back
by Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. and Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Like every other recent technological advancement,...
ISIS and Foreign Fighter Returnees – Prosecute or Raise their Voices against ISIS?
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Grace Wakim “The Chechen fighter next to me shot and...