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The Effects of Assad’s Atrocities and the Call to Foreign Fighters to Come to Syria on the Rise and Fall of the ISIS Caliphate

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…

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Escaping Jinn and the Islamic State

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…

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The People Live in Darkness

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…

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It is Jihad

https://youtu.be/E1I98cD_lOg Anne Speckhard It is Jihad is the 74th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 27-year-old Abu Taha, an Iraqi ISIS guard. Abu Taha was interviewed in 2017 in prison in Baghdad by Anne Speckhard.…

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