Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. This paper was presented at the 2018 OSCE-wideCounter-Terrorism Conference - The Reverse Flow of Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTFs): Challenges for the OSCE Area and Beyond in Rome - May 11, 2018 PDF here Thirty-two-year-old…
We are in the Time of Jihad, is based on the video interview of Syrian ISIS defector Abu Abdullah recorded in Turkey in October 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. The counter narrative video is produced by Zack Baddorf and…
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…
Justice in the Islamic Stateis based on the video interview of Abu Albani, a Kosovar ISIS defector interviewed in prison in Kosovo by Anne Speckhard in June 2016. The video was produced by Zack Baddorf, and ICSVE staff. Abu Albani…
A Poor Man in the Islamic State is based on the video interview of Syrian ISIS defector Abu Abdullah recorded in Turkey in October 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. In this video, Abu Abdullah talks about his work…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. When it comes to American children taken into ISIS, it seems the mother’s rights are fully respected while the rights of her innocent American children are not. (as published in the Daily Beast 4-17-2018) A recent PBS series highlighted the…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. 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. Marriage in the Islamic State was produced by Zack…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. A Child of the Islamic State is the 20th counter narrative video clip in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features Abu Albani, a Kosovar foreign fighter who traveled twice to Syria; first to join and…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D ICSVE is proud to release its new Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narratives video clip, Establishing an Islamic State. This video clip features Abu Omar, who in 2006 as a boy of age 15, joined al Qaeda…
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…