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

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 September 2022

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The Islamic State’s Take on the 2008-09 Israel-HAMAS War

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 September 2022

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Islamic State Profiles a Young Iraqi Jihadist Killed During the Battle of Mosul

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2022

Abu al-Zubayr al-Askari || Al-Naba 352, p. 9

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The Contents of Islamic State’s Weekly Newsletter ‘Al-Naba’ in August 2022

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 September 2022

Christian homes burned by the Islamic State in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo || Al-Naba 352, p. 5

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Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022

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Islamic State Describes Running an Insurgency From the Syrian Desert

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 September 2022

Al-Naba 349, p. 8

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Africa Dominates Two Months of Islamic State Propaganda

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2022

Islamic State fighters from Wilayat Sinai in Egypt || Al-Naba 348, p. 5

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Saddam Relative Arrested in Lebanon, Accused of Islamic State Crimes

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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“Socialism With A Human Face” Was Always Impossible

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 August 2022

It was on this day in 1968, fifty-four years ago, that the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia, one of its colonies in the “Warsaw Pact”, which had embarked on a program of liberalising reforms. The Czech leadership did not intend to depart from the socialist path, merely to soften its edges—and ran into the brute fact that this was not possible. Continue reading →

The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022

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