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Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahmad al-Shara’s Past?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 November 2025

This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abdul Jashari, Abdulaziz Hudaberdi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Qatada al-Albani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, Alawi massacres, Alawis, Alawites, Alija Izetbegović, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bosnia, Brad Cooper, Caesar Act, Caesar sanctions, CENTCOM, China, David Petraus, Donald Trump, Druze, foreign fighters, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, ideology, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jewish State, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Kevin Lambert, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Kurds, Lebanon, media, Palestinians, PKK, propaganda, public relations, Rabbi Yosef Hamra, Raed Fares, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, repression, Salafi-jihadism, Sanctions, sectarianism, SNA, SOCOM, Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taliban, terrorism, Thomas Barrack, TIP, torture, Turkey, Turkistan Islamic Party, United Nations, United States Central Command, Uyghurs, Xhemati Alban, Xinjiang, Zahid on November 13, 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.

How Dangerous is the Islamic State in Africa to Europe?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Strategy and tagged Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Karrar office, al-Naba, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Europe, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, migrants, Mozambique, Puntland, refugees, Russia, Sahel, Somalia, Somaliland, South Africa, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, United Nations, West Africa, Zambia on August 22, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

What Iran’s Leaks Really Tell Us About Syrian “Interim” President Ahmad al-Shara’s Past with the Islamic State

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Syria, Syrian Insurgency and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Anas al-Sahaba, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ghraib Prison, Abu Julaybeeb, Abu Julaybib, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Filistini, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Filistini, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad Husayn al-Shara, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, Al-Aqsa Intifada, al-Hashd al-Shabi, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, Ali Muhammad al-Shara, Ali Muhammad al-Sharaa, Amjad Muzafar Husayn Ali al-Nuaymi, Anas Hassan Khattab, Antisemitism, Arab nationalism, Arab-Afghans, Askari Mosque, atrocities, Awakening, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ba’ath, Ba’athists, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bassam Ahmad al-Hasri, Bosnia, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corrective coup, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Fadel al-Hiyali, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawud, Haji Mutaz, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Husayn al-Shara, Husayn Ali al-Shara, Hussein al-Sharaa, Hussein Ali al-Sharaa, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ikhwan, information operation, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic resistance, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Quds, Jews, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, Joint Special Operations Command, Jordan, JSOC, Juhayman al-Otaybi, Juhayman al-Utaybi, Jund al-Sham, KGB, Lebanon, Maysar al-Jabouri, Maysar al-Jiburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Juburi, Mosul, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad al-Sudani, mukhabarat, muqawama, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abd al-Latif al-Saleh, Nasserism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, pan-Arabism, PLO, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, radicalism, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sabereen, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahwa, Salafism, Saleh al-Hamawi, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, Second Intifada, secret police, Sednaya, September 11 attacks, Shah, shari’a, Shi’a militias, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Surge, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taji Prison, terrorism, The Army of Jerusalem, United Arab Republic, Wahhabism, Zarqawists on May 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Will Trump Succeed in Withdrawing From Syria This Time?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, America, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CENTCOM, Christianity, Christians, Donald Trump, Druze, European Union, Evangelicals, genocide, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, Joe Biden, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Marco Rubio, Nobel Peace Prize, PKK, propaganda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, Sanctions, Sayyida Zaynab, SDF, sectarianism, State Department, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, Turkey, United States on March 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

California’s Wildfires and Sudan’s Civil War: Latest Islamic State Editorials

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Abdul Qadir Mumin, Afghanistan, Africa, Al-Karrar, al-mulhidun, al-Naba, Antisemitism, assassination, atheism, Bilal-al-Sudani, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Christianity, Christians, Communism, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, din, Gaza, Hell, Hemedti, Horn of Africa, ideology, Ikhwan, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, jahiliyya, Janjaweed, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, monotheism, Mozambique, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Nigeria, North Kivu, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinians, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Puntland, Qatar, Rapid Support Forces, RSF, SAF, Somalia, Sudan, Sudanese Armed Forces, Sudanese Civil War, Syria, Taliban, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, wildfires on January 27, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

New Orleans and the Islamic State’s Policy on Lone-Actor Terrorism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abbasids, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, America, Banner of the Eagle, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, bay’a, Black Banner, Black Standard, Christianity, Christians, Christmas, Crusades, deen, din, Donald Trump, Facebook, Flag of the Eagle, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Ikhwan, inghimasi, inghimasiyyun, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihad, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khorasan, lone wolf, lone wolves, manhaj, Meta, methodology, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, New Year, Pakistan, Raya al-Uqab, secularism, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, Syria, terrorism, United States, Yemen on January 12, 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.

The New Insurgent Offensive Shows the War in Syria Never Ended

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Aleppo, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Arab Spring, Astana, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, caliphate, Cold War, Gaza, HAMAS, Hassan Nasrallah, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Houthis, HTS, Idlib, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Ivory Coast, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihadism, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lebanon, Palestine, Palestinians, PKK, Russia, SDF, Shi’a jihadists, SNA, Soviet Union, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian National Army, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Nations, Yemen on December 2, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Islamic State View of Donald Trump Being Back in the White House

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 November 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Afghanistan, al-Naba, Ali Khamenei, Antisemitism, Benjamin Netanyahu, Christians, Crusaders, Deal of the Century, democracy, Democrats, Donald Trump, Egypt, Gulf States, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Jordan, Khorasan, Korah, Nimrod, Pharoah, Qatar, Qur’an, Republicans, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Syria, Taliban, terrorism, UAE, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vladimir Putin on November 18, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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