"Ransom for Freeing Captives": ISIS-Linked Transnational Networks Formalize their Priority of Freeing ISIS Loyalists from Syrian Prison Camps Mona Thakkar & Anne Speckhard Download PDF here While Western countries in particular still debate about the return of women and children…
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…
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,…
Anne Speckhard, Ardian Shajkovci, & Hamid Sebaly as published in the Daily Beast ROJAVA, Syria—Europe is bracing for a new wave of jihadist attacks by terrorists affiliated with the so-called Islamic State, what “you might call ISIS 2.0,” as Interpol…
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/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/d-Ct09gm7pQ Anne Speckhard Islamic State Live-Streaming in Kosovo is the 60th counter narrative video in the ICSVE Breaking the ISIS Brand series. This video features 29-year-old Kosovar, Albert Berisha, who was interviewed by Anne Speckhard in June 2017 in Pristina,…
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…
https://youtu.be/zm278YURq6M Anne Speckhard Listen to and Obey the Islamic Stateis the 62nd counter narrative video in the ICSVEBreaking the ISIS Brandseries. This video features 19-year-old Syrian Ibn Ahmed, who was interviewed in November 2015, in southern Turkey, by Anne Speckhard and…
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.…