As published in The Daily Caller: by Anne Speckhard Over the past two years I’ve been going in and out of northeast Syria working in the region controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), visiting the prisons and camps where…
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard To ISIS supporters around the globe, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was a beacon of hope in an extremely troubled world. His words and actions showed millions of Muslims that it might…
By Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today: President Trump had only days earlier greenlighted Turkey’s invasion into northeast Syria, when 26-year-old Belgian ISIS wife, Bouchra Abouallal, imprisoned in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Camp Ain Issa, suddenly found…
As the Turks and Syrians close in from opposite directions, these women and their children don’t expect much sympathy, but they don’t want to die. by Anne Speckhard BRUSSELS–“The guards have said if the war comes close, then they will…
by Anne Speckhard Brussels: Earlier this week President Trump abruptly changed course and green-lighted a Turkish incursion into north east Syria with disastrous results. The subsequent invasion has unleashed a hellish nightmare of carnage and chaos in what was a…
by Anne Speckhard Athens: On October 9th, 2019, with a “nod” from President Trump—given via Twitter—the Turkish military began an all-out aerial bombardment and invasion of Northeastern Syria, purportedly to clear the area to create a terrorist-free safety corridor and…
As published in the Daily Beast by Anne Speckhard Late Sunday night in Washington, the White Houseannounced it was pulling U.S. troops out of northeast Syria to clear the way for a Turkish invasion. The Kurds there who led the…
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci BERLIN: Turkey is currently saber rattling on the Northern Syria border claiming that the Kurdish dominated Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) are one in the same with the PKK…
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci One woman was killed and seven others were wounded in Camp Hol, Syria, where a gunfight broke out this week after ISIS enforcers tried to impose shariah upon…
As published in Homeland Security Today: By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci ROJAVA, Syria - “When the Islamic State comes back, I will put your head on one of these poles,” an ISIS wife shouted at her female Syrian Democratic Forces…