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…
Georges the Belgian Jihadist features 25-year-old Georges M, a Belgian ISIS supporter. Georges was interviewed in June 2018 in Liege, Belgium by Anne Speckhard and Hamid Sebaly. The video was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and ICSVE staff. Georges’s…
Jihad is our Way features twenty-seven-year-old Kenyan, Aisha, a would-be suicide bomber, radicalized over the Internet, who was interviewed in June 2018 in Kenya by Anne Speckhard. The counter narrative video clip was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and…
The Lion and the Lioness of the Islamic State features twenty-seven-year-old Kenyan, Aisha, a would-be ISIS suicide bomber who was interviewed in June 2018, in Kenya, by Anne Speckhard. It was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE team.…
Marriage Proposals in the Caliphate features thirty-three-year-old Syrian, ISIS commander Abu Said who was interviewed in November 2015 in southern Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla.It was produced and edited by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE team. This counter…
A Baghdad Bombing by the Islamic State features thirty-eight-year-old Abu Jassim, an Iraqi interviewed in 2017 in Baghdad prison by Anne Speckhard and edited by our ICSVE video editors. It highlights how ISIS, and groups like ISIS, are proclaiming over…
The deadly attacks during Sunday services in Indonesia were the work of a whole family. They reportedly had returned from ISIS-land—a cautionary lesson as others seek to head home. ANNE SPECKHARD ARDIAN SHAJKOVCI as published in the Daily Beast While…
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…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.[1] PDF here Abu Qatada, who many have called the spiritual father of al Qaeda in Europe, is a scholar of Islam and what many might deem a terrorist instigator, or an ideologue who puts out arguments in…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. PDF here Between January 19, 2018 and January 24, 2018, a delegation of researchers and academics from the U.S. think-tanks and non-profit organizations, which also included researchers from the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism…