By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023
Tag Archives: Abu Omar al-Baghdadi
The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022
Islamic State Announces That Caliph Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi Is Dead
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2022
The Islamic State’s Take on the 2008-09 Israel-HAMAS War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 September 2022
Islamic State Profiles a Young Iraqi Jihadist Killed During the Battle of Mosul
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 September 2022
Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022
The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022
Another Islamic State “Caliph” Falls
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 February 2022
Islamic State Dismisses the West’s “False Victory” Against It
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 January 2022
Islamic State Profiles the Man Who Led the Last Stand of the Caliphate
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2021
The 304th edition of Al-Naba, the Islamic State’s (IS) weekly newsletter, published on 16 September, mostly consists of reports from the various wilayats (provinces) about military activities: at the Centre in Iraq and Syria, in Egypt, Nigeria, and even further south in Africa, in the Congo. Notably IS keeps quiet about Afghanistan in Al-Naba 304, perhaps related to the series of attacks by the Islamic State’s Khorasan Province (ISKP) over the weekend: ISKP is often silent before planned attacks. Al-Naba 304 devotes pages ten and eleven to a profile of a veteran Iraqi jihadist, Abu Umar al-Khlifawi, who led the jihadists for a time in the final pocket of the caliphate at Baghuz, Syria, despite previous injuries that nearly cost him his hand and blinded him in one eye, before he trekked on foot for a month back to Iraq and ended his life as the military emir of Fallujah. A summary of that profile is below.
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