Authors: Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg* ICSVE is proud to announce our newest publication in the Journal of Strategic Security ISIS in Their Own Words: Recruitment...
Authors: Dr Siobhan O’Neil and Dr Mara Revkin* Although Islamic State’s territorial control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria came to an end in 2017, civilians, and particularly...
Over the past few years, ISIL and Al-Qaida terrorist fighters have posed an “unprecedented threat to international peace and security”, the UN counter-terrorism chief said on...
A new UN report published on Tuesday shows that while considerable effort has been made by Iraqi authorities to bring former ISIL terrorist fighters to justice, there are “serious concerns” about the fairness of the proceedings. The joint report by the...
Even some mainstream U.S. ‘news’-media (but none that are Republican) acknowledge the fact that Qasem Soleimani was among the most effective of all nations’ generals who...
From being proclaimed dead on multiple occasions to the actual confirmation of his death by the Islamic State, the life of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been...
For exactly one month now, Islamic State, ISIS, has struggled without its charismatic leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed during a U.S. military operation in...
podcast by Dr. Matthew Crosston
Today, Turkey started sending ISIS fighters back to Europe, as it promised last week. Europe needs to take responsibility for its ISIS fighters. US President Trump...
“I will see you guys in Newyork”.Abu Du’a, the leader of ISIS, whose nom de guerre (war name) was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, told his American captors...