by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published October 31, 2018 in Homeland Security Today The territorial defeat of ISIS and resultant roundup of both male and female ISIS cadres, not to mention their children – including infants and toddlers…
by Anne Speckhard & Neima Izadi PDF here With estimates of 3000 foreign fighters traveling to Syria and Iraq, Jordan had the highest per capita number of foreign fighters. In addition to Abu Musab Zarqawi having been the leader of al…
Giving the Best of Syria to the Islamic State Caliphate features 22-year-old Syrian Abu Valid, a former Free Syrian Army commander forced to join ISIS, who was interviewed in December 2015, in southern Turkey, by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet Yayla.…
https://youtu.be/iQ3FlCdC-oM A Belgian Serving the Islamic State in Syria is the 58th ICSVE counter narrative video, this one featuring a Belgian who traveled to Syria early on in the conflicts. This video features 27-year-old Younes Delefortrie who was interviewed in…
By: Anne Speckhard Striking it Rich in the Caliphate features Syrian Abu Said, a defected ISIS commander. Abu Said was interviewed in November of 2015, in Southern Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet Yayla. The video was produced and edited by Zack…
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…
The slaughter in the Druze region of Syria cost hundreds of lives last month. It happened after the Druze told the Russians they wouldn’t fight for Assad. Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. AMUDA, Syria—On July 25 in the Syrian province…
Georges the Belgian Jihadist features 25-year-old Georges M, a Belgian ISIS supporter. Georges was interviewed in June 2018 in Liege, Belgium by Anne Speckhard and Hamid Sebaly. The video was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and ICSVE staff. Georges’s…
Jihad is our Way features twenty-seven-year-old Kenyan, Aisha, a would-be suicide bomber, radicalized over the Internet, who was interviewed in June 2018 in Kenya by Anne Speckhard. The counter narrative video clip was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and…
Swearing my Bayat to the Islamic State in a Time of Sectarianism features twenty-eight-year-old Iraqi ISIS member, Abu Omar, who was interviewed in June 2018 in Baghdad, Iraq by Anne Speckhard. It was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and…