While the World is busy fighting the pandemic and the economic devastation caused by it, one of the important problem that has been pushed to dormancy,...
Six years after ISIL launched a genocidal campaign against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq, the international community must live up to its promise to deliver...
Authors: Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg Debates across the world are raging, discussing the issues pertaining to the repatriation of foreign terrorist fighters [FTFs] who left...
Authors: Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria [ISIS] is notorious for its slick propaganda videos and effectiveness at online recruitment,...
The post-Cold War world order has seen non-state actors increasing their avenues of influence in international affairs, while the state is gradually seeing its control ebb....
Authors: Anne Speckhard and Gabriel Sjöblom-Fodor* The northern country of Finland represents a peculiar example in the international debate on ISIS foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and...
Authors: Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg* When one thinks of the recent conflicts in Syria, images of ISIS beheadings, enslavement of Yazidis and black flags flying...
Authors: Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg* When ISIS was defeated territorially, there was a significant decrease in the online propaganda output for which they became notorious...
“I was born in Somalia, in Mogadishu,” Ibn Adam tells me as we start his interview in a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) prison reception area. Ibn...
Authors: Anne Speckhard and Molly Ellenberg* Is Internet recruitment alone strong enough to recruit an individual into a terrorist group, much less to incite him or...
