Mona Thakkar & Anne Speckhard Syria's North Eastern province of Al Hasakah where ten thousand alleged ISIS members have been imprisoned has witnessed disturbing developments in the past month. On Jan 20, around 100 ISIS members employing suicide vests and…
As published in Homeland Security Today: “If I was going to die at least I could die helping children. [It’s] illogical that you are entering a war zone that you don’t know anything about … I felt if I did something…
by Anne Speckhard Brussels: Earlier this week President Trump abruptly changed course and green-lighted a Turkish incursion into north east Syria with disastrous results. The subsequent invasion has unleashed a hellish nightmare of carnage and chaos in what was a…
as published in Homeland Security Today In 2012, the Northeastern Syrian area referred to as Democratic Federation of Rojava – Northern Syria (also as the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria - NES), which consists of the sub-regions of Afrin, Jazira, Euphrates,…
https://youtu.be/F4vbPlRa8XQ Anne Speckhard The Sabayah of the Islamic State is the 61rst counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 19-year-old Syrian Ibn Ahmed, who was interviewed in November 2015, in southern Turkey, by…
https://youtu.be/jAL8lB008Ro Anne Speckhard Dreams of Islamic State Bombings in Baghdadis the 75th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 35-year-old Abu Yahya, an Iraqi driver for ISIS. Abu Yahya was interviewed in December 2017 in…
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…
https://youtu.be/-3TVjO_nH2Y by Anne Speckhard Applying the Law in the Islamic State Caliphate is the 105th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 24-year-old Syrian, Abu Qadir, who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard and Ahmet S. Yayla in…
https://youtu.be/hQEUSMk9L0U Anne Speckhard My Path Toward Jihad is the 64th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 25-year-old Georges, a Belgian from Liege, Belgium, who was interviewed in 2018, in Liege, by Anne…
https://youtu.be/SlxCvLxOYUo Anne Speckhard Should I Join al Shabaab? is the 59th ICSVE counter narrative video and the third one in our Breaking the al Shabaab Brand series. This video features 40-year-old Kenyan, Suzanne, who was interviewed in June 2018, in…
