https://youtu.be/pGbGdG07XZo Anne Speckhard You Should Fear Allah in the Islamic State Caliphate is the 78th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 22-year-old Belgian, Salma, who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in August of 2018 in a…
https://youtu.be/Dar74u0QvSM Anne Speckhard The Islamic State’s Roundabout of Happiness in Raqqais the 67th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 22-year-old Abu Valid, an Syrian former ISIS soldier. Abu Valid was interviewed in December 2015…
The Islamic State Takes Care of You features 25-year-old Abu Hamza, a Syrian from Deir ez-Zor interviewed in 2016 in Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet Yayla. The video was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and ICSVE staff. Abu Hamza…
by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Download the PDF There is a recurring scene of cheerful crowds in Iraqi towns and city that have been liberated from ISIS; older women, men, and young adults exhaling cigarette smoke…
by Asaad H. Almohammad, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. This week U.S. Colonel Joseph E. Scrocca, a coalition public affairs officer and spokesman for the American-led command, declared from Baghdad that the Tabqa Dam (a.k.a., al-Thawra or Euphrates Dam) and the…
