A report written by the German Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) indicated that twenty-nine former German soldiers left their countries to fight for rebel groups, including ISIS, in Syria or Iraq, as reported by local German news .[i] It also claimed…
In Spring of 2007 I was seated on a flight into Baghdad International Airport, on my way into Camp Cropper, where I was interviewing detainees and writing what would become the basis of the Detainee Rehabilitation Program—a plan to try…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 24, 2016 ISIS has been generating millions of dollars through the sale of women and children abducted from the regions it has conquered. While…
A picture is worth a thousand words. It’s a commonly accepted piece of wisdom—one that groups like al Qaeda and ISIS understand all too well when trying to recruit Western youth into their ranks. Images often speak directly to our…
Marie Claire article quoting ISCVE Director Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. by Kate Storey April 22, 2016 by Kate Storey Shannon Conley met a guy online. She was 19, a normal Colorado teen with glasses and a big, toothy smile. He was 32.…
Macleans article quoting ICSVE research By Jonathon Gatehouse April 22, 2016 A billboard (R) belonging to the Islamic State fighters erected along a road, is pictured after forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad recaptured Palmyra city, in Homs Governorate…
Huffington Post article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 21, 2016 By Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. & Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. The case of twenty-six-year-old Mohamad Jamal Khweis—the American-born son of Palestinian immigrants living…
ISIS Sex Slave Trade Brokered in Gaziantep, Turkey ISIS has been generating millions of dollars through the sale of women and children abducted from the regions it has conquered. While the Yazidi slave trade is well publicized in the West,…
Arab Weekly interview quoting ICSVE Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. By Rasha Elass - April 17, 2016 Washington - Foreign jihadists hold privileged positions within the Islamic State (ISIS) as they impose cruelty and misery on Syrians who live under their…
Security Solutions Magazine article by ICSVE Deputy Director Ahmet S. Yayla and Director, Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. April 14, 2016 ICSVE’s new Brief Report by Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. & Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. Once again ISIS cadres have penetrated from Syria into Turkey and…