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Islamic State Celebrates Trump Ambushing Zelensky in the Oval Office

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba, Russia and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, America, America First, China, Communism, Crusader, Donald Trump, Europe, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, NATO, Russia, Second World War, Ukraine, United States, Volodymyr Zelensky on March 30, 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.

The Alawi Massacres in Syria: A Blip or a Rubicon?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Christianity, Christians, Coastal Shield Forces, economy, ethnic cleansing, European Union, foreign fighters, General Security Service, Ghaith Dala, Gnosticism, GSS), Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hama massacre, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Imam Ali, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jableh, jihadism, jihadists, Latakia, Military Council to Free Syria, Miqdad Fatiha, Musa al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Neoplatonism, Nusayris, Ottoman Empire, Ottomans, Prophet Muhammad, Republican Guards, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, Shi’a, SNA, Sunnis, Syria, Syrian National Army, taqiya, Tartous, Tartus, theology, Trinity, Turkey, United States, war crimes on March 17, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Visiting Post-Revolutionary Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Hamidiyah Souq, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, Aleppo, Amin Dakaev, Bahur Chamntoub, Bakhour Chamntoub, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechnya, Christianity, Christians, coronavirus, COVID-19, Damascus, Druze, economy, Farah al-Atassi, foreign fighters, Fourth Division, Hamidiya Souq, Harun, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Idlib, Ignatius Aphrem II, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Kurds, Maher al-Assad, National Dialogue Conference, Nusayris, Patriarch of Antioch, refugees, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, shari’a, SNA, Syria, Syriac Orthodox Christianity, Syrian National Army, Tacitus, Turkey, Umayyad Mosque, Umayyad Square on March 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

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.

Islamists in Britain React to the Fall of Syria’s Regime

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged 5PillarsUK, 9/11, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab al-Suri, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, al-Qaeda, anti-imperialism, Antisemitism, Azhar Qayum, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CAGE, Cageprisoners, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, conspiracy theories, extremism, Guantanamo Bay, Haitham al-Haddad, HAMAS, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, homosexuality, Houthis, HTS, ideology, Ikhwan, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islam21c, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamophobia, Israel, Jews, Jihadi John, jihadism, jihadists, Kashmir, libel, MAB, MCB, MEND, Moazzam Begg, Mohammed Emwazi, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Muhammad Ahmad, Muslim Association of Britain, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Council of Britain, Muslim Engagement and Development, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, NATO, neoconservatives, Pakistan, Palestine, Salman Butt, September 11 attacks, Soviet Union, Sunni Islam, Ummah Welfare Trust, women’s rights, Yemen, Zionism, Zionists on January 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Should Syria’s New Rulers Be on the Terrorism List?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Alawis, Alawites, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, Christians, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihadism, jihadists, John Sawers, MI5, MI6, Qatar, religious minorities, Secret Intelligence Service, sectarianism, Security Service, SIS, Syria, terrorism, Turkey on December 11, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Bashar al-Assad Falls

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Albania, Aleppo, Alois Brunner, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechens, Chechnya, chemical weapons, China, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Free Syrian Army, FSA, Ghouta, GULAG, Hama massacre, Hama rules, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Imam Bukhari Jamaat, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, jihadists, Katibat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, KTJ, Lebanon, Libya, Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muammar Gaddafi, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, nationalism, Nazi war criminals, Nazism, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, pan-Arabism, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Quds Force, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafi-jihadism, Shi’a jihadists, Siege of Hama, Syria, Taliban, TIP, totalitarianism, Tunisia, Turkistan Islamic Party, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Xhemati Alban on December 9, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda Terrorism, Islamic State Strategy, Syria and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, Abdirizaq Abdi Saleh, Abdul Malek Drukdel, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, Abdullah al-Faisal, Abdullah al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Alexandre Dhaussy, Amn al-Kharji, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, AQIM, Arid Uka, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bryan Bijaoui, Carlos Bledsoe, Cedric Cordier, Charlie Hebdo, Chechnya, CIA, Dagestan, Daniel Pearl, Denis Cuspert, Deso Dogg, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Fahd al-Quso, Faisal Shahzad, genocide, Germany, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Hizballah, HTS, Ibrahim al-Asiri, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, JFS, jihadism, Jonathan Sandler, Khairiya Saber, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Kosovo, KSM, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lee Rigby, Major Nidal Hasan, Mali, Michael Adebolajo, Michael Adebowale, Mohammed Merah, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Muhammad Saeed al-Shamrani, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Myriam Monsonego, Nashwan Abdulbaqi, NATO, One Ummah, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Pensacola, PKK, President Joe Biden, Private Quinton Ezeagwula, Private William Long, Qasim al-Raymi, Qassem al-Raymi, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Richard Reid, Roshonara Choudhry, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saif al-Adl, Salafism, Saleh al-Somali, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, SDF, September 11 attacks, spies, Stephen Timms, strategy, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tanzim Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e-Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Um Hamza, Ummah Wahidah, United States, Usama bin Laden, Waziristan, Yemen, Zionism on February 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

United Nations Report Finds Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reduced, But Reviving

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 July 2022

Islamic State in Palmyra, December 2016

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy and tagged Abd al-Haq al-Turkestani, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Raouf al-Muhajir, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdoul Salam Dicko, Abdul Qadir Mumin, Abu Abdullah ibn Umar al-Barnawi, Abu Ahmed al-Madani, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Dujana al-Iraqi, Abu Hammam al-Suri, Abu Hamza al-Khalidi, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza Sharqiyah, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Turkestani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Ithawi, Abu Qarwani, Abu Qasim, Abu Sayyaf Group, Abu Ubayda, Abu Ubayda Yusuf al-Anabi, Abu Umayr al-Hadhrami, Abu Yahia al-Jazairi, Abu Yaseer Hassan, Abu Zacharia, Abubakar Shekau, ADF, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahlu-Sunnah Wa-Jama, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Diriye, Ahmed Hamed Hussain al-Ithawi, Ahmed Umar, Al-Anfal office, Al-Faruq office, Al-Furqan office, Al-Hawl, Al-Hol, Al-Karrar office, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Al-Sham office, Al-Siddiq office, Al-Sinaa prison, Algeria, Allied Democratic Forces, Amadou Boucary, Amadou Koufa, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, and Burkina Faso, Ansar Allah, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Ansarallah, Ansaru, Ansarul Islam, AQAP, AQIM, AQIS, Ashan Sumut, Asidan Ag Hitta, ASWJ, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba Idrisa, Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, Bitcoin, Boko Haram, China, cryptocurrency, Delegated Committee, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, Egypt, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, espionage, ETIM, Europe, Faharudin Hadji Satar, Faknane Ag Taki, Faruq al-Suri, Faysal al-Khalidi, France, GRU, guerrilla war, Habib Yusuf, Haji Hamid, Haji Zayd, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hasan Mahsum, hawala, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Hittin Committee, Houthis, HTS, Huthis, Idlib, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISGS, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Central African Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Islamic State in West Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Mozambique, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State Sinai Province, Islamic State's Central African Province, ISSP, ISWAP, Iyad Ag Ghaly, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jafar Dicko, Jamaat Ansarullah, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen, Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan, JASDJ, Jer Mimbantas, JNIM, Juma Awad al-Badri, Kaiwusair, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lake Chad basin, Libya, Macina Liberation Front, Malam Bako, Mali, Memetiming Memeti, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Niger, Nigeria, Operation BARKHANE, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, PKK, refugees, Russia, Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salih bin Salim bin Ubayd Abolan, Sami Jassim al-Jaburi, Samir al-Bourhan, Samir Hijazi, Sanaullah Ghafari, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SDF, Seka Musa Baluku, Sekou Muslimu, Shahab al-Muhajir, Sidan Ag Hitta, sleeper cells, Somalia, spies, Sudan, Syria, Syrian Democratic Founders, Tajikistan, Talha Al-Libi, Taliban, Tamim al-Kurdi, Tandheem Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, terrorism, TTP, Turkistan Islamic Party, Uganda, Ukraine, Umm al-Qura office, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, Usama bin Laden, Uyghurs, Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, Vladimir Putin, Wagner Group, wilayats, Xinjiang, Yahia Abu Amar, Yahia Djouadi, Yazid Mabrak, Yazid Mebrak, Yemen, Zu al-Nurayn office on July 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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