By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024
Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia
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Category Archives: Islamic State Terrorist Attacks
Islamic State Khorasan Province is Looking More Dangerous
Islamic State Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium
Al-Qaeda Claimed It Was Behind the 2015 ‘Charlie Hebdo’ Attack. But Was It?
Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?
Islamic State Attacks the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan, Uses it Against the Taliban
Islamic State Attacks Israel for the First Time in Five Years
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 March 2022
Israeli security forces reacting to the terrorist attack in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv, 29 March 2022 || Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has said his country is “facing a new wave of terrorism” after five attacks in the last ten days have killed eleven people. The Islamic State (IS) has effectively admitted to carrying out two of the atrocities, the first time in five years the terrorist group has carried out attacks in the Jewish state. This hiatus, partly a reflection of the fact that, unlike some other Islamist extremists, IS does not make the anti-Israel cause a central plank of its propaganda, also reflects the relatively small inroads IS’s ideology has made to this point among Palestinian and Israeli Arabs. Whether this is now changing is unclear. Continue reading
Islamic State Says the Massacre at Kabul Airport Shows They Are the True Jihadists
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 September 2021
Front page of Al-Naba 302
The Islamic State (IS) released the 302nd edition of Al-Naba, its weekly newsletter, on 2 September. The major focus of Al-Naba 302 was the 26 August bombing of the Kabul Airport by IS’s “Khorasan Province” (ISKP) that killed nearly 200 people, including thirteen members of the U.S. military (eleven marines, one soldier, and one navy corpsman), and wounded 150 people. Continue reading
Islamic State Claims the Killing of a Canadian Citizen
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 March 2019
Al-Naba 175, page 8
Kirk Woodman, a Canadian geologist working for a Vancouver-based mining company, Progress Minerals Inc., was found dead in Oudalan province, north-east Burkina Faso, on 16 January 2019. Woodman had been kidnapped the previous day from a mining camp. Ouagadougou announced that Woodman had been killed the following day. Woodman’s body was described as “bullet-riddled”. It was noted by one outlet that Woodman had been taken in “a border region infiltrated by jihadis”, but not very much more has been said of the case in the last two months. On 28 March, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the murder in the 175th edition of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba. Continue reading
The Unravelling of a Guided Islamic State Plot in Russia
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 February 2019
Islamic State terrorists responsible for the Danghara attack in Tajikistan, July 2018 [source]
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