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…
ICSVE research paper featured in Vox-Pol By Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci & Lorand Bodo This blog post synopsises a study that attempted to intervene with over fifty English-speaking Facebook accounts endorsing, promoting, and following ISIS. Methodology and Research Design For this study, several…
The Call of Duty features thirty-one-year-old Abu Hilmi, a Kosovar interviewed in June of 2016 in Kosovo by Anne Speckhard, with Haris Fazilu serving as an interpreter. This video clip was produced by Zack Baddorf and the ICSVE team. It focuses…
ICSVE Video, “Joining the Cubs of the Caliphate” covered by The Clarion Project BY MEIRA SVIRSKY Sunday, June 17, 2018 Some fathers take their sons to be trained by the Islamic State to be jihadi warriors. Others, like this boy, who lost…
Haram in the Islamic States features thirty-three-year-old Abu Said, a defected Syrian, ISIS commander interviewed in November 2015 in southern Turkey by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla. This counter narrative video clip is produced by Zack Baddorf and ICSVE team and…
Joining the Cubs of the Caliphate features 18-year-old Abu Yousef, a Syrian ISIS defector, who was lured into the ISIS Cubs of the Caliphate at age 16. Abu Yousef was interviewed in 2016 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla and…
Aiming for Paradise with the Cubs of the Caliphate features 18-year-old Abu Yousef, a Syrian ISIS defector who served in the ISIS Cubs of the Caliphate at the age of 16. Abu Yousef was interviewed in 2016 by Anne Speckhard and…
Sex in the Islamic State features 18-year-old Abu Yousef, a Syrian ISIS defector interviewed in 2016 by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla and was produced by Zack Baddorf and our ICSVE team. It highlights the experiences of youth in the…