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Islamic State Sets its Sights on Libya as a Launchpad for Terrorism Against Europe

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 October 2025

This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Jihadi Output, Libya, Naba and tagged Abd Allah ibn Abi al-Sarh, Abdallah ibn Abi al-Sarh, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Africa, al-mustad’afun, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-wala wal-bara, Amr ibn al-As, aqeeda, aqida, Barqa, Caliph Omar, Caliph Umar, Caliph Uthman, Christianity, Colonel Gaddafi, deen, Derna, dunya, Europe, fard ayn, Fath al-Islami, Fezzan, Ibn Khaldun, Ikhwan, infidels, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Conquests, Islamic State, Islamism, jahiliyya, jihadism, jizya, Libya, monotheism, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Musa ibn Nusayr, Muslim Brotherhood, Prophet Muhammad, Romans, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahel, sectarianism, Sirte, taghut, Tawhid, terrorism, Tripoli, Umar al-Faruq, umma, Uqba ibn Nafi, West Africa, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi on October 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State’s Commentary on Israel (So Far) in 2025

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Israel, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Mazen, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Azhar, al-Naba, Amn al-Kharji, Antisemitism, Ariel Sharon, Battle of Al-Bab, Camp David, Christianity, Crusaders, Donald Trump, Egypt, Gaza, Gaza War, HAMAS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, ideology, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamists, Israel, jahiliyya, Jewish State, Jews, jihadism, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, nationalism, NATO, Operation EUPHRATES SPRING, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, Persians, PLO, Pope, Pope Francis, Qatar, Qur’an, rabbis, Rafida, Rafidites, Roman Catholic Church, Second Intifada, shari’a, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey on October 24, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Strategy, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahl al-Kitab, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Abdi Ali, al-Bab, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, apostates, atrocities, Badiya, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Boko Haram, Borno State, Burkina Faso, Burning of the Camps Campaign, Cabo Delgado, Cameroon, Christianity, Christians, da’wa, deen, Deir Ezzor, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Donald Trump, Egypt, Europe, Gaza War, General Qalyare, Ghouta, Ghouta chemical attack, global jihad, GRU, hajj, HAMAS, Hasaka, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, hijra, HTS, Iblis, ideology, IEDs, Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam, Jews, jihad, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jizya, KGB, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, massacres, missionaries, Mozambique, munafiqun, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Niger, Nigeria, Operation Burning of the Camps, Pakistan, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Palestine, Palestinians, People of the Book, Persians, PKK, pogroms, proselytism, Puntland, Rafida, Rafidites, Raqqa, Russia, Rwanda, Saddam Husayn, Sahel, SDF, sectarianism, Shi’a, Shi’is, Somalia, Syria, Syrian Badiya, Syrian Democratic Forces, Tabuk expedition, Taliban, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United States, Wagner, war crimes, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, Zionism, Zionists on October 21, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Surviving HAMAS and Getting the Other Israeli Hostages Out: Omer Shem Tov Speaks

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 July 2025

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This entry was posted in British Politics, Islamic Militancy, Israel and tagged Al-Aqsa Flood, Antisemitism, assassination, Eden Ben Zaken, Eliya Cohen, Gaza, HAMAS, Home: Omer Shem Tov Speaks, hostages, IDF, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Israeli Defence Forces, Itay Regev, Jews, Maya Regev, Nova Music Festival, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omer Shem Tov, Omer Wenkert, Shir Hama’alot, starvation, terrorism, torture, Yoram Zak, Zion on July 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

HAMAS Reportedly Admits To Being in Crisis

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Islamic Militancy, Israel and tagged Al-Aqsa Flood, Al-Qassam Brigades, Antisemitism, Asharq al-Awsat, Britain, disinformation, Donald Trump, Europe, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Intelligence, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Izzadeen al-Qassam Brigades, Kataib al-Shahid Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Khan Younis, Khan Yunis, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, media, misinformation, Mohammad Shabana, Mohammed Sinwar, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Operation GIDEON’S CHARIOTS, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, PLO, political warfare, Qassam Brigades, Rafah Brigade, Saudi Arabia, Simchat Torah pogrom, United Nations, West Bank, Yahya Sinwar on May 24, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Bosnia, Iran, Islamic Militancy and tagged activism, Adnan Jahić, advocacy journalism, AKP, al-Qaeda, Alija Izetbegović, Arkan, Asim Blekić, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Çetin Doğan, Balyoz, Bill Clinton, Borislav Herak, Bosnian civil war, Bošniaks, Branko Veleć, Britain, Caco, Captive Nations, China, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Communism, Counterintelligence Service, crimes against humanity, Croatia, Croats, cult, Dani Rodrik, Deep State, Douglas Hurd, Ed Vulliamy, El-Mudžahid Brigade, Ergenekon, ethnic cleansing, Ettela’at, Eve-Ann Prentice, false flags, fascism, Fethullah Gülen, Fikret Muslimović, Franjo Tudjman, Franjo Tuđman, genocide, Greater Serbia, HAMAS, Handschar Division, Hasan Čengić, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hizmet Hareketi, Hizmet movement, ICTY, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, international aid, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, international law, Iran, Iranian Intelligence Ministry, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Declaration, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, jihadists, JNA, Josip Broz Tito, journalism, Jugoslav National Army, Jugoslavija, Juka Prazina, Juka’s Wolves, Justice and Development Party, Jusuf Prazina, Kasim Blekić, Kemalism, Kemalists, Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KOS, Koševo Hospital, Kravica massacre, Krso Ramiz, Larks, League of Communists, Lewis MacKenzie, Lisbon Agreement, Macedonia, Mate Boban, media, Mirsad Tokača, Montenegro, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mušan Topalović, Naser Orić, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nedžad Ugljen, New York Times, Nikola Gardović, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Odred el-Mudžahid, Omarska, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation FRAME, Operation STORM, Orthodox Christians, Osama bin Laden, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Party of Democratic Action, Patriotic League, political warfare, PR, propaganda, public relations, Radovan Karadžić, Ramiz Delalić, rape as a weapon of war, Ratko Mladić, Rebecca West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, religion, Renate Flottau, Republic of Serbian Krajina, Republika Srpska, Risto Pustivuk, Roman Catholics, Samantha Power, Sandžak, SDA, secret police, secularism, Sefer Halilović, Senad Avdić, Serbia, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbs, Seventh Muslim Brigade, Sledgehammer, Slobodan Milošević, Slobodna Bosna, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Srebrenica Massacre, Sretko Damjanović, SS, State Department, strategic messaging, Third Balkan War, Third World Relief Agency, Trnopolje, Turkey, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, VEVAK, Vojislav Šešelj, war crimes, war rape, Young Muslims, Yugoslavia, Zvornik, Ševe, Željko Ražnatović, Ćelo on October 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Progress of the Islamic State’s New Foreign Terrorism Campaign

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 August 2024

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks and tagged Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Naba, Amaq News Agency, Anis Amri, Antisemitism, Australia, Austria, Baghuz, caliphate, Christianity, Crocus City Hall, Dagestan, Germany, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Ibrahim Boudina, ideology, India, IRA, Iran, Irish Republican Army, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic Revolution, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Israel, Issa al-Hasan, Jews, jihadism, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, lone wolf, lone wolves, Mar Mari Emmanuel, Mehdi Nemmouche, Mohamed Abu Dhess, Mohammad Daleel, October 7 Pogrom, Palestine, Palestinians, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Riaz Khan Ahmadzai, Russia, Safia Schmitter, Salafism, sectarianism, Sikhism, Solingen, Stephen Paddock, Syria, Taha Falaha, Tajikistan, Tajiks, Tawhid cell, terrorism, Tunisia, Turkey on August 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Bringing the Islamic State to Saddam’s Iraq and Joining Al-Qaeda

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 June 2023

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This entry was posted in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Speeches, History, Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Strategy, Jihadi Biographies, Saddam and Islamism and tagged 1920 Revolution Brigade, 1991 Iraqi revolts, Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, Abd al-Majid al-Khoe’i, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Abdallah al-Rawi, Abu Abdullah, Abu al-Bara al-Kuwaiti, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoe’i, Abu al-Qassam al-Urduni, Abu Ali, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Bakr Naji, Abu Dajana al-Iraqi, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Firas, Abu Hammam al-Suri), Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hamza Rabia, Abu Ja’far al-Iraqi, Abu Julaybib al-Urduni, Abu Khattab al-Ansari, Abu Maaz, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, Abu Umar al-Kurdi, Abu Zubaydah, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Hamla al-Imaniya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Ali Berjak, Ali Bourjaq, Ali Mustafa Yussef Siam, Ansar al-Islam, Antisemitism, AQI, AQM, Arab nationalism, Armed Islamic Group, Army of Muhammad, Askari Mosque bombing, Atiya Abd al-Rahman, Atiyya, Ayad Allawi, Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Baath Party, Baathism, Baathists, Badr Brigade, Badr Corps, Bashar al-Assad, Bayat al-Imam, Blackwater, caliphate, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colin Powell, Dawa Party, Diana Dean, Duelfer Report, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Eugene Armstrong, Ezzedine Salim, faith campaign, Fallujah, Faruq al-Suri, Faysal al-Mutayri, Faysal bin Zayd al-Mutayri, former regime elements, FREs, General Intelligence Directorate, George Tenet, Germany, GIA, GID, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hadi al-Ameri, HAMAS, Hamid Karzai, Hizb al-Awda, IIS, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Intelligence Service, ISI, Islamic Army of Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Israel, Issam al-Barqawi, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Iyad Allawi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jack Armstrong, Jack Hensley, Jadriya bunker incident, Jalal Talabani, Jamaa al-Salafiyya al-Mujahideen fi al-Iraq, Jamal al-Ibrahimi, Jamal al-Misrati, Jaysh al-Islami al-Iraqi, Jaysh al-Mahdi, Jaysh Muhammad, Jaysh Omar, Jaysh Umar, Jews, jihadism, Jordan, Jund al-Sham, Karbala, Kataib Thawrat al-Ishreen, KDP, Ken Bigley, Khadr Abu Hoshar, Khaled al-Aruri, Khudair Abbas al-Ubaydi, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurds, Kuwait, Laurence Foley, Mahdi Army, Manaf al-Rawi, Mao Zedong, Margaret Thatcher, Masud Barzani, Millennium Plot, Mohamed Abu Dhess, Muhammad Kazem al-Janabi, Muhammad Khalil al-Hakaymah, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, mujahideen, mukhabarat, Mullah Atari, Muqtada al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Najaf, Nicholas Berg, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yousef Juma’a, Omar Yusef Juma, Omar Yusef Juma’a, Operation DAWN, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation PHANTOM FURY, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, pan-Arabism, Party of the Return, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Paul Bremer, Peshmerga, PIJ, PLO, PROJECT 111, PUK, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Raed Hijazi, Revolution of Purple Ink, revolutionary warfare, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sadrist Movement, Saif al-Adl, Salafi Group of Holy Warriors in Iraq, Salafism, Salem bin Suweid, Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, Samir Hijazi, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SCIRI, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, sharia, Shi’a militias, Shi’a revolt, Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Sunni Arabs, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Syria, takfir, takfirism, Taliban, Tandheem Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tawhid cell, terrorism, Thamir al-Rishawi, The Management of Savagery, Thirwat Shehata, tribes, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wahhabism, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Yasser Arafat, Yasser Freihat, Yusuf al-Dardiri, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn on June 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Prevent Review: What Went Wrong in British Counter-Extremism Policy

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 March 2023

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This entry was posted in British Domestic Terrorism, Islamic Militancy and tagged Aafia Siddiqui, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Ala al-Mawdudi, Ahmadis, Ahmadiyya, Ahmed Hassan, Al-Hurraya, Al-Manaar, al-Qaeda, Albigensians, anarchism, ANTIFA, apostasy, As-Shifa mosque, Asad Fazil, Asad Shah, Behavioural Insights Team, blasphemy, Brexit, Britain, CAGE, Cageprisoners, Cathars, Channel, civil society organisations, Communism, conservatism, CONTEST, counter-extremism, counter-terrorism, David Duke, deceptive compliance, deradicalisation, Donald Trump, eco-terrorism, extreme Left, extreme Right-wing, far-Left, far-Right, Fishmongers’ Hall attack, foreign fighters, free speech, HAMAS, hate crimes, heresy, Hezbollah, Hizballah, ideology, IHRC, Imam Online, incels, Independent Review of Prevent, India, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Irfan Chishti, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, Ismail Haniyeh, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Jalal Uddin, Jews, jihadism, Joe Rogan, Karimia Institute, Kashmir, Khalistan, Khalistanis, Khatme Nubuwwat movement, Ku Klux Klan, liberalism, London Bridge attack, MCB, Me and You Education, MEND, mental health, Musharraf Hussein, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Cultural Heritage Centre, Muslim Engagement and Development, Muzaffar Shah Qadri, narwhal tusk, Nazism, NIIP, non-violent extremism, Nottingham Islam Information Point, online radicalisation, optimism bias, Pakistan, Palestinians, politicisation, PREVENT, Prophet Muhammad, radicalisation, rehabilitation, RICU, safeguarding, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Shakeel Begg, Shaker Aamer, shari’a, Sikh, Sudesh Amman, Taliban, terrorism, The Beatles, United Kingdom, Usman Khan, violent extremism, vulnerability, white supremacism, William Shawcross, YouTube, Yvonne Ridley on March 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Saddam Relative Arrested in Lebanon, Accused of Islamic State Crimes

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 August 2022

Area on the banks of the Tigris where the cadets of Camp Speicher were massacred by the Islamic State || Scott Peterson/The Christian Science Monitor

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Jihadi Biographies, Saddam and Islamism and tagged Abdullah Yasser Sabawi, Abdullah Yasser Sabawi al-Hassan, Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, Abu al-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Adnan al-Bilawi, Ba'athists, Baathism, Barzan al-Ibrahim, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Byblos, caliphate, Camp Speicher massacre, execution, Fedayeen Saddam, genocide, Gulf War, Houthis, Ibrahim Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, IIS, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraqi Intelligence Service, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Jebeil, Jubayl, Lebanon, Libya, mukhabarat, Muslim Brotherhood, pan-Arabism, Republican Guards, Saad Sabawi, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein, Salafi Trend, Salafism, Sanctions, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, Six-Day War, spies, The Faith Campaign, totalitarianism, Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Yemen on August 24, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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