This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19434472.2020.1839118. by Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg Abstract The present study is a targeted analysis of in-depth…
Anne Speckhard and Mona Thakker As published in Homeland Security Today: As the ISIS foreign women languish in the overcrowded Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] administered camps of Al Roj and Al Hol housing without adequate and regular access to health care,…
Anne Speckhard, Mona Thakker and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: In the past weeks, foreign ISIS women held in custody in the northeast Syrian region controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), who were for the most part…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: At the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism [ICSVE], we have explored the implications of repatriating foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] through the lenses of ISIS children, women, and fighters. We…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: “Coming to ISIS was the best deradicalization I could have.” Bouchra Abouallal, age 26, Belgian ISIS wife The ISIS “Caliphate” at its apex managed to attract approximately 40,000 foreign terrorist…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] is notorious for its slick propaganda videos and effectiveness at online recruitment, particularly on social media, of men and women all over…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: According to our ICSVE research interviews with 240 ISIS members, including an ISIS emir who claims to have worked with Turkish military and intelligence, Turkey has long been involved with and supporting…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Despite ISIS having been territorially defeated since 2019, the United Nations reported in January of 2020 that 8,000 children of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] remain in the custody of the Syrian Democratic…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Debates across the world are raging, discussing the issues pertaining to the repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] who left their home countries to fight with the Islamic State of…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: While a debate rages in Europe over whether or not ISIS women and their children can be repatriated to their European home countries, some women have been taking things into…