This video clip features Ibn Mesud, an eighteen-year-old Syrian ISIS defector from al Hasakah, Syria interviewed in December 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla in southern Turkey. The video clip was produced by Zack Baddorf and ICSVE staff. In…
A Poor Man in the Islamic State is based on the video interview of Syrian ISIS defector Abu Abdullah recorded in Turkey in October 2015 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. In this video, Abu Abdullah talks about his work…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. When it comes to American children taken into ISIS, it seems the mother’s rights are fully respected while the rights of her innocent American children are not. (as published in the Daily Beast 4-17-2018) A recent PBS series highlighted the…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. My Journey Towards Jihad is the 19th counter narrative video clip in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. It features Abu Albani, a Kosovar foreign fighter who went twice to Syria; first to join and fight with the…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. [1] PDF here AMMAN, Jordan: What does Abu Qatada, the so-called “spiritual father” of al-Qaeda in Europe and man responsible for a fatwa on Algeria that some argue offered ideological justifications for killing civilian family members of…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. "Muslins are Killing their Brothers in Islam" is ICSVE's newly released video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Cadres Counter-Narrative Project. Produced by ICSVE's Zack Baddorf, this video clip is based on Anne Speckhard's and Ahmet S. Yayla's…
by Asaad Almohammad, Ph.D., Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. PDF here Executive Summary This paper endeavors to explore the ISIS prison system, the arrest or abduction, interrogation and confession and total detention processes; as well as the…
By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. ICSVE is proud to announce the release of The Glorious Martyrs of the Islamic State, another new video clip in the Breaking the ISIS Brand--ISIS Defectors Counter-Narrative Project, a project aimed at using ISIS…
PDF here by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Director, ICSVE and Non-Resident Fellow of Trends & Ardian Shajkovci, Ph.D. Director of Research/Senior Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE) During the 2016 campaign and in the early months…
