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…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet Yayla, Ph.D. Celebrations and calls for more attacks to “enrage the kufrs [unbelievers]” erupted on ISIS Telegram chat rooms (encrypted social media) just after this evening’s July 14 terrorist attack in Nice, France in…
Second ISIS Suicide Attack Team Plotting Major Attack was Caught June 3rd in Sanliurfa, Turkey by: Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Urfa (Sanliurfa), the city in Southern Turkey that ISIS cadres have referred to as their R&R destination…
Article published in The Times citing Dr. Anne Speckhard Many Islamic State fighters view the group as a brutal and corrupt organisation, according to accounts of dozens of defectors, but its utopian message is likely to endure long after the…
