by Anne Speckhard “Baqiya!” is the battle cry of those who continue to believe in the resurgence of ISIS. It is also the battle cry of female ISIS enforcers in Camp al Roj, the camp in Syria housing women and…
"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…
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19434472.2020.1839118. by Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg Abstract The present study is a targeted analysis of in-depth…
as published in Homeland Security Today In 2012, the Northeastern Syrian area referred to as Democratic Federation of Rojava – Northern Syria (also as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria - NES), which consists of the sub-regions of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates,…
Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci, & Hamid Sebaly as published in the Daily Beast ROJAVA, Syria—Europe is bracing for a new wave of jihadist attacks by terrorists affiliated with the so-called Islamic State, what “you might call ISIS 2.0,” as Interpol…
https://youtu.be/F4vbPlRa8XQ Anne Speckhard The Sabayah of the Islamic State is the 61rst counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 19-year-old Syrian Ibn Ahmed, who was interviewed in November 2015, in southern Turkey, by…
https://youtu.be/q6-ym1TvL6Y Anne Speckhard Escaping Jinn and the Islamic State is the 56th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features fifty-one-year old Albanian healer and imam, Verdi Morava, who was interviewed in July of 2018 in an Albanian prison…
https://youtu.be/d-Ct09gm7pQ Anne Speckhard Islamic State Live-Streaming in Kosovo is the 60th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 29-year-old Kosovar, Albert Berisha, who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in June 2017 in Pristina,…
https://youtu.be/NyVdt1Jf8FI Anne Speckhard The People Live in Darknessis the 66th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 22-year-old Abu Valid, a Syrian defected ISIS fighter. Abu Valid was interviewed in December of 2015, in Southern…
https://youtu.be/zm278YURq6M Anne Speckhard Listen to and Obey the Islamic Stateis the 62nd counter narrative video in the ICSVEBreaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 19-year-old Syrian Ibn Ahmed, who was interviewed in November 2015, in southern Turkey, by Anne Speckhard and…