Homegrown ISIS Inspired and Directed Terror Attacks—the New Normal? Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. and Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. As the Syrian and Iraqi battlefields come under heavy siege and ISIS continues to sustain substantial losses, its leaders are calling…
No Coincidences in Terrorist Attacks By Dr. Ahmet S. Yayla and Dr. Anne Speckhard ISIS is claiming credit for inspiring the latest terrorist attacks in Nice, France and on a train in southern Germany. We don’t know what was in…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet Yayla, Ph.D. (TIME Magazine article) They can help reveal the truth Recent ISIS-inspired attacks, including attacks in Nice and Orlando, are a reminder that ISIS is more than a terrorist group. It’s also an…
ISIS has gone unchallenged in one arena for far too long and the longer we let it slide, the more dangerous ISIS will become in the West. It’s not on the ground (they are losing territory); it’s not its leadership…
ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate Book Launch Please see our ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate book launch at New America. By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. Link to New…
ISIS Claims Execution of an American in Turkey Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Sixty-one-year-old, American worker, Thaddeus Mithcheel Borowicz, fire chief at Incirlik military base in Adana in Southern Turkey was found dead in the garden…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet Yayla, Ph.D. Celebrations and calls for more attacks to “enrage the kufrs [unbelievers]” erupted on ISIS Telegram chat rooms (encrypted social media) just after this evening’s July 14 terrorist attack in Nice, France in…
Second ISIS Suicide Attack Team Plotting Major Attack was Caught June 3rd in Sanliurfa, Turkey by: Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Urfa (Sanliurfa), the city in Southern Turkey that ISIS cadres have referred to as their R&R destination…
“Hold On, America; The War Is Not Over and You Have Yet to Win” Ahmet S Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. “These are the words of ISIS deputy and spokesman Mujahid Shaykh Abu Muhammad al- Adnani ash-Shami…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Murky federal plans, and odd bedfellows between law enforcement and counseling professionals, currently threaten to create ethical dilemmas for those in the helping professions—psychologists, counselors, imams and doctors—who may be called upon by the FBI in upcoming…