ISIS in al-Shadadi
Over the last two years the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) has interviewed 62 ISIS defectors, returnees and prisoners, most denouncing ISIS, in our Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter-Narrative…
She Doesn’t Regret Torturing Women for ISIS
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…
The Runaway Bride of ISIS: Transformation a Young Girl with a Dream to a Lethal ISIS Enforcer
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. The baby boy, not more than a year old, fusses in the arms of Abu Said, our Syrian fixer as the…
Making a Monster: How I Became an ISIS Bride
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,…
Inside The ISIS Machine Turning Children to ‘Monsters’
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…
Beware the Women of ISIS: There Are Many, and They May Be More Dangerous Than the Men
ICSVE is proud to announce our new report by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.d. released August 21, 2017 in the Daily Beast "This report from the International Center for the Study of…
Beware the Women of ISIS: There Are Many, and They May Be More Dangerous Than the Men
ICSVE article published in The Daily Beast and republished in Security Solutions (in two parts - Part One and Part Two) This report from the International Center for the Study…
The ISIS Prison System: Its Structure, Departmental Affiliations, Processes, Conditions, and Practices of Psychological and Physical Torture
by Asaad Almohammad, Ph.D., Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. PDF here Executive Summary This paper endeavors to explore the ISIS prison system, the arrest or abduction, interrogation…
Ensuring a Long-term Win Against ISIS In Mosul: The Need for Rehabilitation & Reintegration Programs & Restoring Security and Justice
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., Grace Wakim Get the PDF Allah Akbar (meaning God is Greatest) is a colloquial expression commonly used by Muslims, especially in the Arab world, to praise…
Identifying Nefarious Telegram Users without the Help of Telegram Itself: Testing Solutions for Intelligence and Security Professionals in Fighting ISIS in the Encrypted Social Media Space
Lorand Bodo, M.A. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download PDF Introduction Telegram currently is, for a plethora of reasons, the favorite encrypted social media app employed by ISIS.[1] As such, Telegram…