PERSPECTIVE: Spontaneous Deradicalization and the Path to Repatriate Some ISIS Members
If a recruiter can talk a person into terrorism, it is also possible to talk him back out of it.
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ISIS and the Militant Jihad on Instagram
Recruiters continue to be prolific online, encouraging supporters to hope and work toward the Caliphate’s return and to seek revenge on those who destroyed it by mounting attacks at home.
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Is Turkey a Bad Actor in Regard to ISIS Prisoners Being Held in SDF Territory?
While a Moldovan woman was certainly “rescued” from the well-documented dire conditions at al Hol, she was being held as a detainee in Camp al Hol as an ISIS fighter’s wife.
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PERSPECTIVE: Can We Repatriate the ISIS Children?
They were either brought, or born, into the terrorist group by their parents who served ISIS in various capacities.
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Can an ISIS Terrorist be Rehabilitated and Reintegrated into Society?
Some died in Syria and some have made their way back home, but nearly 10,000 male FTFs, approximately 2,000 of them from Europe, are currently being held by the Syrian Democratic Forces.
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The Security Risk Posed by ISIS Women Smuggling Their Way Out of Camp Hol
The SDF acknowledges these escapes, most recently confirming Swedish news reports that ISIS women from the Netherlands, France, Finland, Switzerland and Sweden have all been smuggled out of the camp in recent months.
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The Curious Case of ISIS’s Recent Audio Diatribe About Qatar
In an unusual twist, ISIS spokesperson Abu Hamza al-Qurashi broke ranks with previous statements by al Qaeda, its affiliates, and ISIS in singling out and threatening Qatar, rather than their usual targets Saudi Arabia or Western powers.
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PERSPECTIVE: Why Branding Antifa a Terror Group Is a Diversion
Defending violence as defensive in nature is in line with terror groups, but there are key differences.
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Finland’s Challenges Facing Potential Repatriation of ISIS Detainees
In some of these returnees, violence has been forsaken for the time being, but this Takfiri mindset is still present.
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How Assad’s Atrocities Became a Powerful Motivator for Terrorist Recruitment
Lessons for the world to learn about how terrorist groups use humanitarian crises to influence and engage youth.
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Recruiting from Beyond the Grave: A European Follows Anwar al-Awlaki Into ISIS
When Ibn Adam was introduced to Awlaki’s virulent influence, Awlaki was already dead, drone killed in Yemen by the American forces. Yet Awlaki was still alive and well on the Internet.
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PERSPECTIVE: Delegitimizing ISIS and Militant Jihadist Ideologies May Also Require Addressing Anti-Western Biases
Some commenters took the counternarrative and speaker having been from their country as an insult to their national pride and thus suggested that they did not find the speaker credible.
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Is Internet Recruitment Enough to Seduce a Vulnerable Individual into Terrorism?
Of the 236 ICSVE interviews that have been translated and coded on 342 variables, 117 reported some element of Internet-based recruitment as part of their process of joining the group.
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Lessons from Chernobyl, Terrorism on Dealing with Mental Health Challenges of COVID-19
With COVID-19 we are dealing with an invisible stressor and the potentially traumatic threat of death to ourselves and our loved ones. Widespread feelings of anxiety and depression may, in the long run, cause a new kind of post-traumatic stress.
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When Religion and Culture Kill: COVID-19 in the Somali Diaspora Communities in Sweden
There are reports from all over the world of fanatical religious preachers representing fringe elements of most of the major faiths telling their communities to continue coming to worship, even to take religious pilgrimages, that God will not allow them to fall ill.
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Kimberly Pullman: A Canadian Woman Lured Over the Internet to the ISIS Caliphate
Western women had all sorts of reasons for joining ISIS, from seeking romance, falling in love, wanting an adventure, following a man, or escaping a bad family situation, to rejecting Western society where they felt rejected themselves.
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ISIS in Their Own Words: Recruitment, Motivations, Duties and Disillusionment
The participants had vast variation in their educational levels and socioeconomic statuses, thus representing the broad range of people from all over the world who have joined ISIS.
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Leaked Document Reveals EU in Talks with Syrian Democratic Forces About the Fate of EU ISIS Detainees
The reluctance by EU member states to take responsibility for those who left from their territories to join ISIS is due to concerns about ISIS returnees constituting a danger to European society and inability to prosecute and imprison them.
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PERSPECTIVE: Ireland’s Lisa Smith Is a Test Run on Repatriation of ISIS Women
Lisa went to Syria hoping to find freedom from alcohol and the “sins” that had plagued her life and to start anew deepening and following the Islam in which she found comfort. Yet she ended up repeatedly imprisoned.
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PERSPECTIVE: What Are the Legal and Moral Issues and Repercussions of the U.S. Assassination of Soleimani?
This act of war may lead to exactly what Soleimani was aiming for – ousting U.S. forces from Iraq and diminishing U.S. influence there.
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