You Must Join the Islamic State features 31-year-old Iraqi Abu Latif. He was interviewed in 2017 in an Iraqi prison in Baghdad, Iraq, by Anne Speckhard. The video clip was video edited and produced by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE…
This video clip features Ibn Mesud, an eighteen-year-old Syrian ISIS defector from al Hasakah, Syria interviewed in December 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla in southern Turkey. The video clip was produced by Zack Baddorf and ICSVE staff. In…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Joining Islamic State for the Sake of Martyrdom is the 15th video clip in ICSVE's Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. Joining Islamic State for the Sake of Martyrdom is based on Anne Speckhard's June 2017 prison interview…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. "Muslins are Killing their Brothers in Islam" is ICSVE's newly released video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. Produced by ICSVE's Zack Baddorf, this video clip is based on Anne Speckhard's and Ahmet S. Yayla's…
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 Project. ICSVE has been capturing these interviews on video which…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. ICSVE is proud to announce the release of The Glorious Martyrs of the Islamic State, another new video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Defectors Counter-Narrative Project, a project aimed at using ISIS…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Abu Abdullah, a Syrian ISIS defector, was interviewed in Turkey by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism's Ahmet S. Yayla and Anne Speckhard after he escaped from ISIS. Today we release the edited video clip…
