As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci ICSVE were invited experts speaking at the “International Forum on ISIS: Dimensions, Challenges, and Strategies for Confrontation” in Rojava, Syria,…
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci The problem of what to do with the captured ISIS foreign fighters, the women who married them, and…
As published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci Of all the love stories from inside the ISIS Caliphate that we have learned about firsthand in the course…
As published at Daily Beast. by Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci The Islamic State terror group has claimed involvement in the horrific Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 320 people at…
The OSCE wide Counter Terrorism Conference - Taking Stock of Efforts to Prevent and Counter Terrorism as well as Violent Extremism and Radicalization that lead to Terrorism in the OSCE area is…
As published in Homeland Security Today: By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci BAGHDAD: In both Syria and Iraq ISIS cadres that have managed to escape have quietly melted into the…
as published in Homeland Security Today In 2012, the Northeastern Syrian area referred to as Democratic Federation of Rojava – Northern Syria (also as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria…
By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today In the complicated relationship between the government of Turkey and ISIS, it’s unclear how much of the relationship…
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today Rojava, Syria – In the past month, Islamic State fighters in Syria (and in Iraq) are increasingly being captured and…
Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci, & Hamid Sebaly as published in the Daily Beast ROJAVA, Syria—Europe is bracing for a new wave of jihadist attacks by terrorists affiliated with the so-called…