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…
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…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. The International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) is an action-based non-profit research center that operates the Breaking the ISIS Brand—Counter-Narratives Project, which uses insider voices of ISIS defectors, returnees and prisoners, to denounce the group as well…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet Yayla, Ph.D. (TIME Magazine article) They can help reveal the truth Recent ISIS-inspired attacks, including attacks in Nice and Orlando, are a reminder that ISIS is more than a terrorist group. It’s also an…
ISIS has gone unchallenged in one arena for far too long and the longer we let it slide, the more dangerous ISIS will become in the West. It’s not on the ground (they are losing territory); it’s not its leadership…