Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. While some in camps for foreign ISIS-affiliated women want no more to do with Islamic State, others refuse to accept caliphate's territorial defeat and seek to bear it more children, using pubescent boys within the camps as…
Anne Speckhard As published in The Daily Beast Two boys have come forward to claim they were victims in a twisted plot run by ISIS women that forced at least 10 young teenagers to try to impregnate dozens of women held in a…
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today The welfare of children and adolescents housed in al Roj and al Hol camps located in Northeast Syria has also been the subject of considerable debate among…
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: 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 Gabriel Sjöblom-Fodor As published in Homeland Security Today: The northern country of Finland represents a peculiar example in the international debate on ISIS foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and returnees. Known mainly for its celebrated educational system, welfare…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., and Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. PDF here INTRODUCTION Even after decades of military efforts and loss of human lives on the part of western governments against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and most recently ISIS, these interventions have proven…
by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., Grace Wakim Get the PDF Allah Akbar (meaning God is Greatest) is a colloquial expression commonly used by Muslims, especially in the Arab world, to praise God and express commitment to the religion of Islam. Muslims…