https://youtu.be/NyVdt1Jf8FI Anne Speckhard The People Live in Darknessis the 66th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 22-year-old Abu Valid, a Syrian defected ISIS fighter. Abu Valid was interviewed in December of 2015, in Southern…
https://youtu.be/zm278YURq6M Anne Speckhard Listen to and Obey the Islamic Stateis the 62nd counter narrative video in the ICSVEBreaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 19-year-old Syrian Ibn Ahmed, who was interviewed in November 2015, in southern Turkey, by Anne Speckhard and…
https://youtu.be/pI9hdDRDvGk Anne Speckhard Swearing my Bayat to the Islamic State in Fallajuah is the 73rd counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 46-year-old Iraqi Abu Bassim. He was interviewed in 2017 in an Iraqi prison in…
https://youtu.be/q9ZTmYyN6eY by Anne Speckhard The Helpers of the Islamic State Caliphate is the 111th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 29-year-old Belgian, Abu Usama al Belgique who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in August of 2018…
https://youtu.be/z5nao8DZZIw by Anne Speckhard Often, realities of war differ from war stories and war-related reporting we see on TV or social media platforms, such as YouTube or Facebook. Many who joined the conflict in Syria, like thirty-one-year-old, Abu Hilmi, a Kosovar…
Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shaykovci As published in Homeland Security Today PDF here This paper discusses ICSVE efforts at counter messaging in their Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project and addresses criticisms pertaining to the use and creation of…
by Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci & Neima Izadi as published in Homeland Security Today PDF here Iraq remains a divided country riven by sectarian grievances and political and internal security challenges. The government of Iraq has also failed to efficiently…
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci As Published in The Washington Examiner The Syrian civil uprising, abuses by Syrian President Bashar Assad, and calls from terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al Qaeda, resulted…
By Anne Speckhard & Neima Izadi PDF Here In 2017, ISIS suffered major territorial and military defeat in Iraq. Despite the achieved success, the group remains active and in control of small pockets of territory in Iraq. It also continues…
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today PDF here During its heyday, ISIS and other militant groups attracted 40,000 foreign fighters in an unprecedented migration of men, women, and children to the battlegrounds of Syria…