Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today At the recent 2018 Doha Forum, which ICSVE researchers participated in, Nobel Peace Prize winner Nadia Murad powerfully spoke on behalf of female victims of rape and captivity around the world.[1]Nadia chronicled…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.& Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. As published in Homeland Security Today PDF here Abstract: This paper is based on the research interviews of 101 ISIS returnees, defectors, and ISIS prison cadres conducted by the International Center for the Study…
by Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci & Neima Izadi as published in Homeland Security Today PDF here Iraq remains a divided country riven by sectarian grievances and political and internal security challenges. The government of Iraq has also failed to efficiently…
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci As Published in The Washington Examiner The Syrian civil uprising, abuses by Syrian President Bashar Assad, and calls from terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and Jabhat al-Nusra, an offshoot of al Qaeda, resulted…
by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published October 31, 2018 in Homeland Security Today The territorial defeat of ISIS and resultant roundup of both male and female ISIS cadres, not to mention their children – including infants and toddlers…
Giving the Best of Syria to the Islamic State Caliphate features 22-year-old Syrian Abu Valid, a former Free Syrian Army commander forced to join ISIS, who was interviewed in December 2015, in southern Turkey, by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet Yayla.…
https://youtu.be/iQ3FlCdC-oM A Belgian Serving the Islamic State in Syria is the 58th ICSVE counter narrative video, this one featuring a Belgian who traveled to Syria early on in the conflicts. This video features 27-year-old Younes Delefortrie who was interviewed in…
By: Anne Speckhard Striking it Rich in the Caliphate features Syrian Abu Said, a defected ISIS commander. Abu Said was interviewed in November of 2015, in Southern Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet Yayla. The video was produced and edited by Zack…
You Must Join the Islamic State features 31-year-old Iraqi Abu Latif. He was interviewed in 2017 in an Iraqi prison in Baghdad, Iraq, by Anne Speckhard. The video clip was video edited and produced by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE…
The slaughter in the Druze region of Syria cost hundreds of lives last month. It happened after the Druze told the Russians they wouldn’t fight for Assad. Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. AMUDA, Syria—On July 25 in the Syrian province…