“Radical Islamic Terrorists”: How is President Trump doing in his first 100 days in Office?
PDF here by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Director, ICSVE and Non-Resident Fellow of Trends & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. Director of Research/Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) During the 2016 campaign and in the early months…
Al Qaeda Makes its Move with a Video Primer by Hamza bin Laden
Significance of the new video, “Advice for Martyrdom-Seekers in the West” By Ahmet S Yayla Al Qaeda has stepped out of the shadow of Islamic State, promoting its brand of terror with a new leader and a comprehensive…
Confronting an ISIS Emir: ICSVE’s Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter-Narrative Videos
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here Most experts agree that the most successful counter-messaging campaigns against ISIS are the ones that utilize the voices of insiders: the voices of ISIS victims and ISIS cadres themselves who have first-hand knowledge of…
ICSVE’s New “Breaking the ISIS Brand” Video Clip – Today is the Female Slave Market Day in ad-Dawlah
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Abu Abdullah, a Syrian ISIS defector, was interviewed in Turkey by the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism's Ahmet S. Yayla and Anne Speckhard after he escaped from ISIS. Today we release the edited video clip…
Telegram: the Mighty Application that ISIS Loves
By Ahmet S. Yayla & Anne Speckhard Download the PDF ISIS has been the most successful terrorist organization in history using social media and the Internet for distributing its propaganda, dissemination of its news and more importantly to communicate. There…
ISIS Drones: Evolution, Leadership, Bases, Operations and Logistics
Asaad Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF The use of drones by terrorist organizations has been documented for over a decade [[1],[2], & [3]]. During November 2004, Hezbollah used Mirsad-1, an Iranian made drone, for reconnaissance over…