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Abu Qatada: The “Spiritual Father” of al Qaeda in Europe reflecting on Terrorism and the Future of the Middle East as Trump takes the U.S. Presidency

“Let me be honest, I am now much more quiet in the way I talk, but inside me—honestly I’m much more violent. And I am convinced that it’s embedded in me that this world is dirty and it is increasing in its dirtiness, and the dealing with it is only with the dirtiness forced upon us."

Competing Interests, Civilian Confusion, Conspiracy Theories and Chaos in the Assault on Mosul

November 3, 2016
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Grace Wakim and Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. While, Mosul, the last stronghold of ISIS is being assaulted, ISIS is holding the people of Mosul hostage. Many military forces are fighting their way through the city to liberate it but each is…

ISIS’s New Threat: Possible Use of WMDs

October 26, 2016
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By Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Days before the coalition forces began their Mosul operations, ISIS openly threatened on a Turkish Telegram account to make use of WMDs, mainly chemical weapons as a last resort. It was…

Portrait of Turkey’s ISIS Leader Halis Bayancuk: Alias Abu Hanzala

October 13, 2016
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By Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. Halis Bayancuk is the leader of ISIS in Turkey. His kunya is Abu Hanzala, although Turkish ISIS members call him Hanzala Hoca (Sheikh Hanzala). Halis Bayancuk and his father Haci Bayancuk have a long…

ISIS Claims the Minnesota Stabbing Spree but those behind the New York City and New Jersey bombs still remain in Shadows

September 19, 2016
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Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The New York city explosion this week—injuring at least twenty-nine—and discovery of a second device found blocks away, rocked the city as it set off alarms and questions about whether or not New York had suffered another…

Great Reviews Appearing for ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate adapted for the stage in Zwang des Materials

September 18, 2016
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Paderborn, Germany—artistic director, Katharina Kreuzhage, adapts the book ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. into a the theatrical production Forced the Material. The book results from research interviews with…

Theater meets Real Life with the ISIS Defectors Interviews Project

September 16, 2016
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Theater meets Real Life with the ISIS Defectors Interviews Project Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. With the appearance of impending victory on the Syrian and the Iraq battlefield against ISIS[1], the group has moved to…

Turkey’s July Coup Attempt: “A Gift from God” to a new Authoritarianism

September 16, 2016
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House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats HEARING ON TURKEY AFTER THE JULY COUP ATTEMPT September 14, 2016 Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. Deputy Director International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) Turkey’s July…

ISIS’s No. 2 is dead: What it means to the West

September 6, 2016
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By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D., contributors Featured in http://thehill.com/ http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/homeland-security/294523-isis-number-two-is-dead-what-it-means-to-the-west Abu Muhammad al‐Adnani, spokesman for ISIS and next in line under al-Baghdadi, the current leader of ISIS, is dead. Killed just last week by coalition forces.…

Aftermath of another ISIS Attack in Gaziantep, Turkey: A Possible New Internal Conflict for Turkey

August 22, 2016
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By Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. On August 20, 2016, ISIS carried out a suicide attack in Gaziantep, Turkey targeting a Kurdish neighborhood wedding ceremony killing fifty-one people and wounding sixty-nine others. The suicide bomber was…