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Profile of Islamic State “Heroic Commander” Jarrah al-Shami

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 April 2025

This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Sulayman al-Utaybi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Jarrah al-Shami, al-Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Anbar, assassination, Awakening, Battle of Fallujah, Fallujah, Haditha, Hamid al-Zawi, Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, Ibn Jarrah al-Shami, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Jarrah al-Shami, jihadism, Muawiya al-Qahtani, Mujahideen Shura Council, Operation PHANTOM FURY, Pakistan, Ramadi, Sahwa, special operations, Syria, The Battle of Donkey Island, The Battle of Life, tribes on April 30, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah al-Baz, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Nasser al-Qardash, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abdullah bin Najm al-Hilali, Abdullah Qardash, Abdulrahman al-Qaduli, Abdulrahman Ibn Mustafa al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, Abu Abdulrahman al-Dulaymi, Abu Ahmad al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Shami, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri, Abu al-Hareth, Abu al-Harith, Abu al-Harith al-Iraqi, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu al-Nasr al-Libi, Abu al-Nasser al-Libi, Abu Ala al-Afri, Abu Ala al-Qurayshi, Abu Alaa al-Afri, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ali al-Qurdash al-Turkmani, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Azzam al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu Azzam al-Iraqi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Zaydi, Abu Iman, Abu Ishaq al-Askari, Abu Jasim al-Iraqi, Abu Khattab al-Falluji, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muhammad al-Ghassani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abu Nabil al-Zubaydi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Shahd al-Mashadani, Abu Sulayman al-Nasser, Abu Talha al-Ansari, Abu Talha al-Hamdani al-Adnani, Abu Talha al-Mawsuli, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Qurdash, Abu Umar al-Shihawi al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Bilawi, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Al-Faqih Abu Khattab al-Dulaymi, Al-Harari, Al-Haras al-Jamhuri al-Khas, Al-Jazeera Camp, al-Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, Al-Nasser Lideen Allah, Al-Qa’qa ibn Amr, al-salaf al-salih, Al-Salul, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Ansar al-Islam, Arab Empire, Army of Hardship, Army of Truth, Awwad al-Zuba’i, Awwad al-Zuba’i al-Qahtani, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidi, Baghuz, Battle of Fallujah, Battle of Tal Afar, Caliphate Army, Coptic Christians, Copts, Dar Islami, Delegated Committee, Du’a Khalil Aswad, extremism, Fadel al-Hiyali, faith campaign, Faiz al-Athari, Fallujah, Grand Mufti, Group of Monotheism and Salafism, Haji Abdullah al-Afri Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawood, Haji Dawud, Haji Iman, Haji Mutaz, Hamid al-Ani, Hamid al-Muhammadi, Hamid al-Salafi, Hamid al-Zawa, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hilal al-Ameri, Hilf al-Mutayibeen, HTS, Hudayfa al-Batawi, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, IIP, Iran, Iraq, Iraq al-Ameri, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jahiliyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Salafiyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jaysh al-Siddiq, Jaysh al-Usra, Jaysh Dabiq, Jaysh Khilafa, jihadism, jihadists, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Khalidiya Island, Kharijites, Khattab al-Ameri, Khattab al-Faysal, khawarij, Kurdistan, Libya, Manaf al-Rawi, Maysar al-Jaburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Jaburi, monotheism, Muayyad al-Salih, Muayyad Talih, muhajireen, Muhammad al-Issawi, Muhammad Khalaf Shakar, Muharib al-Jaburi al-Qahtani, mujahideen, Mujahideen Shura Council, Mullah Krekar, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Najmadin Faraj Ahmad, Numan al-Zaydi, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yusuf Juma, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, pious predecessors, Prophet Muhammad, RAND Corporation, Rawa Camp, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafis, Salafism, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Shaker al-Badri, shari’a, Shi’ism, Subhi al-Badri, Sulayman Khalid Darwish, Syria, Taha Abd al-Raheem Abdallah Bakr al-Ghassani, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tanzim al-Qaeda, terrorism, Thamir al-Dulaymi, Umar al-Assafi, Umar bin Hadid al-Dulaymi, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Wahhabi, Wahhabism, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Yasin Qardash, Yazidis on January 11, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Wife Sentenced to Death

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Iraq, Jihadi Biographies and tagged Abd al-Nasir Qardash, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abdallah al-Zuba’i, Abu Abdallah al-Zubai, Abu Abdullah al-Zuba’i, Abu Abdullah al-Zubai, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Umar al-Shishani, Aisha Qatmawi, Al-Arabiya, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Al-Hawl, Al-Hol, al-Jazeera, al-Qaeda, Aramaic, Asma Fawzi Mohammed al-Qubaysi, Asma Mohammed, Ba’athism, Ba’athists, BBC, Camp Speicher, Chechnya, Daesh, Fallah Ismail Jassem, Geneva Conventions, genocide, Greek Orthodox Christianity, Haji Bakr, Hisham Mohammad, Hudayfa al-Badri, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Isra Rajab Mahal al-Qaysi, Izzat al-Douri, Izzat al-Duri, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jamaa, Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama’a, Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama’a, Jaysh al-Rashideen, Jesus, jihadism, Kamal Khalaf, Kayla Mueller, Maaloula, Malula, Mansour, Muath al-Kasasbeh, Muslim Brotherhood, Nohad Machnouk, Nour Ibrahim al-Zuba’i, Nour Ibrahim al-Zubai, Omaima, PMF, Popular Mobilization Forces, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saja al-Dulaimi, Salafism, Samir al-Khlifawi, sectarianism, Seda Dudarkaeva, Shi’a militias, Siban Khalil, slavery, Special Groups, Syria, Taha Falaha, Tarkhan Batirashvili, terrorism, Terrorism in the Grip of Justice, Turkey, Umaima, Umm Hudaifa, Umm Hudayfa, Wael al-Ta’i, Wolf Brigade, Yazidi genocide, Yazidis on October 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

An Islamic State ‘Distinguished Martyr’ Who Defected From the Taliban

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abdallah ibn Salam, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Malik al-Tamimi, Abu Malik al-Tamimi al-Najdi, Abu Mubashir, Abu Omar al-Khorasani, Abu Umar al-Khorasani, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Anas al-Nashwan, Arab conquests, Banu Qaynuqa tribe, Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, caliphate, Christianity, Donald Trump, Hafiz Saeed Khan, Haji Rabbani, ideology, Inter-Services Intelligence, ISI, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Jews, Libya, mujahideen, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, sectarianism, Soviet Union, Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, terrorism, TTP, Zia ul-Haq on March 17, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Al-Qaeda Terrorism, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged 9/11 Commission, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdallah Azzam, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu al-Khayr, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Faraj al-Masri, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Khalid al-Suri, Abu Khayr al-Masri, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Ubayda al-Panjshiri, Abu Yasser al-Masri, Abud al-Zumar, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Mabruk, Ahmad Salama Mabruk, Al-Azhar, al-Maktab al-Khidamat, al-Masada al-Ansar, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda al-Askariyya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, Ali Amin al-Rashidi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, AQAP, AQI, AQIM, AQM, Arab League, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Arab-Afghans, Atiyya, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Azza Ahmed Nuwair, Benghazi, Bosnia, Chechnya, Christopher Stevens, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Dr. Fadl, East African Embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Encep Nurjaman, faith campaign, Faruq al-Suri, Faruq Hijazi, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hambali, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Houthis, Huthis, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Group, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Jamal Abd al-Nasr, Jamal al-Misrati, Jemaah Islamiyah, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khaled al-Islambuli, Khalid al-Islambouli, Kofi Annan, Lion’s Den of Supporters, Mali, Marxism, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad al-Bahaya, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atef, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, nationalism, Nazism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, PLO, Rabia al-Zawahiri, Riduan Isamuddin, Rifai Taha, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saeed al-Masri, Sahwa, Saif al-Adl, Samir Hijazi, Saudi Arabia, Sayd al-Adl, Sayf al-Adel, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Services Bureau, Shah, Six-Day War, Somalia, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, Sudan, Surge, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Tamim al-Adnani, terrorism, The Blind Shaykh, U.S.S. Cole, Umar Abdurrahman, Usama bin Laden, Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, World Trade Centre bombing, Yasin al-Suri, Yemen on July 31, 2023 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 World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Rahman al-Khorasani, Abdulrahman al-Khorasani, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Jazeera, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Udeid Airbase, al-zanadiqa, Algeria, apostasy, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Breaking the Walls campaign, Burkina Faso, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diwan al-Dawa wal-Masajid, Diwan al-I’lam, Egypt, FIFA World Cup, freedom of religion, God, Gulf States, Hamid al-Zawi, Hashd al-Shabi, heretics, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State ISIS, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamists, Jews, jihad, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, liberalism, Mali, Mozambique, Nangarhar prison break, Niger, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, personal freedom, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Qatar, religion, Sahwa, Sahwat, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, Shah Cheragh shrine, sharia, shari’a, Shi’ism, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Africa, Westoxification, Wilayat al-Sahel, World Cup, Yemen, Yusuf al-Siddiq, zakat on December 4, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Has Turkey Captured the Islamic State’s “Caliph”?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Turkey, Turkey and ISIS and tagged Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza al-Kurdi, Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Umar al-Shishani, Abu Zayd al-Iraqi, al-Naba, Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, caliphate, Delegated Committee, Haji Hamid, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Ismail al-Ithawi, Jamal al-Mashadani, MIT, National Intelligence Organisation, Professor Zayd, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saddam Hussein, Sami Jassim al-Jaburi, Seda Dudarkaeva, Syria, Tarkhan Batirashvili, terrorism, Turkey, Ustath Zayd on September 9, 2022 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.

Reviewing the Mystery of Jihadi Ideologue Abdullah Azzam’s Assassination Three Decades Later

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 August 2022

Abdullah Azzam [image source]

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Qatada al-Filistini, Afghan Arabs, Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, al-Hazimiyya, Al-Jihad Magazine, al-Maktab al-Khadamat, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, America, Arab-Afghans, Armed Islamic Group, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Communism, Edmund McWilliams, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, espionage, Farkhar massacre, George H.W. Bush, GIA, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, HAMAS, Hazimis, Hezbollah al-Hijaz, historiography, Hizb-i-Islami, Hizballah al-Hijaz, ideology, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic State, Israel, Issam al-Barqawi, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jamal Khashoggi, Jamiat-i-Islami, jihad, Jihadi-Salafism, Jordan, KGB, KHAD, Mikhail Gorbachev, MOSSAD, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, mujahideen, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Hamid, Nasrullah Mansur, Omar Othman, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Peshawar, PLO, Rashid Ahmad, Red Army, Sab al-Layl Mosque, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Services Bureau, Soviet Union, spies, State Intelligence Agency, takfir, theology, Thomas Hegghammer, Umar Othman, Usama bin Laden, Wahhabism on August 11, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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