The Call to Jihad video features thirty-one year old Abu Naim, a Kosovar interviewed in Kosovo in June 2016 by Anne Speckhard with Haris Fazilu translating. Zack Baddorf and ICSVE staff produced this counter narrative video. It highlights the empathy felt…
We are in the Time of Jihad, is based on the video interview of Syrian ISIS defector Abu Abdullah recorded in Turkey in October 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. The counter narrative video is produced by Zack Baddorf and…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. This video clip features Ibn Mesud, an eighteen-year-old Syrian ISIS defector from al Hasakah, Syria interviewed in December 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla in southern Turkey. Marriage in the Islamic State was produced by Zack…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. A Child of the Islamic State is the 20th counter narrative video clip in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features Abu Albani, a Kosovar foreign fighter who traveled twice to Syria; first to join and…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. My Journey Towards Jihad is the 19th counter narrative video clip in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features Abu Albani, a Kosovar foreign fighter who went twice to Syria; first to join and fight with the…
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. The baby boy, not more than a year old, fusses in the arms of Abu Said, our Syrian fixer as the black veiled Umm Rashid seated next to him talks to…
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. As published in the Daily Beast, August 31, 2017 PDF here A teenage girl from rural Syria dreamed of becoming a doctor, but the war and the so-called Islamic State made her…
Our ICSVE research reported in the Daily Beast 8-25-2017 The little American boy, 10-year-old ‘Yusuf’ threatening Trump, is one of thousands of children indoctrinated by the so-called Islamic State ANNE SPECKHARD 08.25.17 1:10 PM ET SULAYMANIYAH, Iraq – When a…
The Jihad in Jordan: Drivers of Radicalization into Violent Extremism in Jordan By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download PDF EXECUTIVE SUMMARY It is estimated that since the start of the Syrian conflict in 2011, over 30,000 foreign fighters have joined Sunni…
