Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Despite ISIS having been territorially defeated since 2019, the United Nations reported in January of 2020 that 8,000 children of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] remain in the custody of the Syrian Democratic…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: In the wake of protests against police brutality sweeping the nation, the name Antifa abounds online as the political right’s bogeyman, blamed even by U.S. President Trump and Attorney…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: When one thinks of the recent conflicts in Syria, images of ISIS beheadings, enslavement of Yazidis and black flags flying on behalf of the establishment of the ISIS Caliphate loom…
Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg Read the full academic article in the International Studies Journal here. As published in Homeland Security Today: When ISIS was defeated territorially, there was a significant decrease in the online propaganda output for which they became…
Anne Speckhard & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: Is Internet recruitment alone strong enough to recruit an individual into a terrorist group, much less to incite him or her to travel across continents to join, as in the…
Anne Speckhard, Othman Mahamud & Molly Ellenberg As published in Homeland Security Today: In Sweden there is a small diaspora community of Somali immigrants who fled war and poverty who make up just .69 percent of the total population.[1] Normally, this…
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION The decades of military efforts and loss of human lives on the part of western governments against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda, and most recently ISIS, have proven insufficient to eliminate the threat of militant jihadi terrorist…
As published by Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci ROJAVA, Syria: “I didn’t know John,” 35-year-old Alexanda Kotey responds with a look of innocence filling his face to our question of, “Are you one of the Beatles?”…
As Published in Homeland Security Today by Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci ROJAVA, Syria: The belief in an afterlife and the fear of eternal damnation is one way to manipulate a believer. Such manipulative tactics worked on Hoda Muthana, a…
By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci as published in Homeland Security Today In the complicated relationship between the government of Turkey and ISIS, it’s unclear how much of the relationship was direct and formal, as opposed to support coming from…