by Anne Speckhard Athens: On October 9th, 2019, with a “nod” from President Trump—given via Twitter—the Turkish military began an all-out aerial bombardment and invasion of Northeastern Syria, purportedly to clear the area to create a terrorist-free safety corridor and…
As published in the Daily Beast by Anne Speckhard Late Sunday night in Washington, the White House announced it was pulling U.S. troops out of northeast Syria to clear the way for a Turkish invasion. The Kurds there who led…
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci BERLIN: Turkey is currently saber rattling on the Northern Syria border claiming that the Kurdish dominated Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) are one in the same with the PKK…
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci One woman was killed and seven others were wounded in Camp Hol, Syria, where a gunfight broke out this week after ISIS enforcers tried to impose shariah upon…
As published in Homeland Security Today: By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci ROJAVA, Syria - “When the Islamic State comes back, I will put your head on one of these poles,” an ISIS wife shouted at her female Syrian Democratic Forces…
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci “We have thousands of ISIS fighters that we want Europe to take, and let’s see if they take them,” President Trump told reporters at the beginning of the…
As published in Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard and Ardian Shajkovci ICSVE were invited experts speaking at the “International Forum on ISIS: Dimensions, Challenges, and Strategies for Confrontation” in Rojava, Syria, and gave the following presentation about their recommended next steps…
As published by Homeland Security Today: by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci The problem of what to do with the captured ISIS foreign fighters, the women who married them, and their children continues to plague Western countries, as UN High…
As published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci Of all the love stories from inside the ISIS Caliphate that we have learned about firsthand in the course of interviewing 168 ISIS defectors, returnees and imprisoned ISIS cadres…
As published in Homeland Security Today By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci The vulnerability of the U.S. borders to possible exploitation by terrorists—particularly in light of the heavy migration flow towards our southern border in particular, through either those posing…