VEILED THREAT
As the Turks and Syrians close in from opposite directions, these women and their children don’t expect much sympathy, but they don’t want to die.
Anne Speckhard, Ph.D., is an adjunct associate professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). She has interviewed over 500 terrorists, their family members and supporters in various parts of the world including Gaza, the West Bank, Chechnya, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, the Balkans, the former Soviet Union and many countries in Europe. She is the author of several books, including Talking to Terrorists and ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate. Follow @AnneSpeckhard
KILLING FIELDS
The Kurds are not entirely defenseless. They’ve been preparing for what they had long anticipated—a possible betrayal by their closest ally, the United States.
BOOM!
A single rocket landed inside Baghdad's Green Zone near the U.S. embassy on Sunday night. An Iraqi counterterrorism officer tells The Daily Beast an Iran-backed militia fired it.
MARTYR MADNESS
Whatever the actual extent of the terror group’s involvement in the carnage, it knows the images and ideology of martyrdom it demonstrates will serve its cause.
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HOLD YOUR BREATH
A prisoner now in Baghdad, the young scientist is still proud of what he did developing chemical weapons for ISIS. When will they be used? He doesn’t know, doesn’t seem to care.
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‘ISIS 2.0’
Jailed jihadis are being released, others are returning to Europe to face prison time, and still others have never been known to police and wait to be mobilized.
CRIMINAL COMPLICITY
The slaughter in the Druze region of Syria cost hundreds of lives last month. It happened after the Druze told the Russians they wouldn’t fight for Assad.
NIGHTMARE
The deadly attacks during Sunday services in Indonesia were the work of a whole family. They reportedly had returned from ISIS-land—a cautionary lesson as others seek to head home.
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SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
When it comes to American children taken into ISIS, it seems the mother’s rights are fully respected while the rights of her innocent American children are not.
THE $25 MILLION MAN
Americans and Russians have converged on the Euphrates Valley where the ISIS “caliphate” is making a last stand. They “think” Baghdadi’s alive there. But he could be long gone.
