Mona Thakkar and Anne Speckhard As published in Homeland Security Today The February 2023 UN report of the Analytical and Sanctions monitoring team concerning Al Qaeda and IS reinforced the security threat posed by the Al-Hol camp as Islamic State’s major…
"Ransom for Freeing Captives": ISIS-Linked Transnational Networks Formalize their Priority of Freeing ISIS Loyalists from Syrian Prison Camps Mona Thakkar & Anne Speckhard Download PDF here While Western countries in particular still debate about the return of women and children…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: The head of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria [AANES] recently announced that the authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava) will be conducting trials of the many ISIS prisoners held by…
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 As published in Homeland Security Today: “I am a mother whose son went to Syria in 2014 and joined IS. I follow your posts and also your videos about the prisoners in Syria. My son is a German citizen…
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 As published in Homeland Security Today: Last week ICSVE researchers were in Brussels to discuss our work concerning issues of repatriations of European ISIS members to face justice at home. In that regard, ICSVE has been working with EU…
by Anne Speckhard Brussels: Earlier this week President Trump abruptly changed course and green-lighted a Turkish incursion into north east Syria with disastrous results. The subsequent invasion has unleashed a hellish nightmare of carnage and chaos in what was a…
https://youtu.be/pNxWgUGCUfk Anne Speckhard Following my Father into the Islamic State Caliphate is the 79th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 22-year-old Belgian, Salma who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in August of 2018 in detention…