Working for the Islamic State features twenty-nine year old Abu Hashim, an imprisoned former ISIS driver interviewed in Baghdad by Anne Speckhard in January of 2018. This counter narrative video clip is produced by the ICSVE team and underlines the…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here BAGHDAD - The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) researchers recently took part in Department of Defense (DOD - CENTCOM) and Iraqi government jointly sponsored incubator program held in Baghdad, Iraq. Facilitated…
The final victory over the so-called Islamic State won’t be won until its ideas have been dismantled and discredited. ANNE SPECKHARD ARDIAN SHAJKOVCI 12.19.17 5:00 AM ET (Originally published in the Daily Beast) BAGHDAD—We arrived here this month just as…