by BEYOND THE HORIZON | May 16, 2018 | Event
A Beyond the Horizon Conference 18 June 2018 Brussels Press Club, Belgium “Breaking the ISIS Brand Counter Narrative Project – Addressing the Challenges of Radicalization to Violent Extremism for Europe and Beyond” by Anne Speckhard, Ph.D.* EVENT REPLAY...
by Anne Speckhard | May 5, 2018 | Commentary
A recent PBS series highlighted the case of an American mother, Samantha Elhassani, who took her two American children into the so-called Islamic State and had two more babies there with her Moroccan husband, who became a member of ISIS. Her two eldest children, now...
by Anne Speckhard | Feb 16, 2018 | Commentary
Abu Qatada, who many have called the spiritual father of al Qaeda in Europe, is a scholar of Islam and what many might deem a terrorist instigator, or an ideologue who puts out arguments in support of militant jihad, but never himself fights jihad or spills blood....
by Anne Speckhard | Feb 1, 2018 | Commentary
Hundreds of thousands of children around the world have been seduced and forced into being child soldiers and cadres in the service of armed and violent groups. Many have been successfully treated using a combination of individual, family and community...
by Sebastian S. Stolberg | Jan 22, 2018 | Commentary, Modern Air & Space Power, Political & Hybrid Warfare
On 6 Jan 2018 Russian Hmeimim air base in northwestern Latakia province, the headquarters of Russia’s military operations in Syria, and naval base at Tartus was allegedly targeted by swarm of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). The Russian Defense Ministry announced that...