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The New Insurgent Offensive Shows the War in Syria Never Ended

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2024

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.

Advocacy Journalism Has Been a Problem for Ages: Looking Back at Bosnia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 October 2024

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This entry was posted in Bosnia, Iran, Islamic Militancy and tagged activism, Adnan Jahić, advocacy journalism, AKP, al-Qaeda, Alija Izetbegović, Arkan, Asim Blekić, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Çetin Doğan, Balyoz, Bill Clinton, Borislav Herak, Bosnian civil war, Bošniaks, Branko Veleć, Britain, Caco, Captive Nations, China, Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Communism, Counterintelligence Service, crimes against humanity, Croatia, Croats, cult, Dani Rodrik, Deep State, Douglas Hurd, Ed Vulliamy, El-Mudžahid Brigade, Ergenekon, ethnic cleansing, Ettela’at, Eve-Ann Prentice, false flags, fascism, Fethullah Gülen, Fikret Muslimović, Franjo Tudjman, Franjo Tuđman, genocide, Greater Serbia, HAMAS, Handschar Division, Hasan Čengić, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hizmet Hareketi, Hizmet movement, ICTY, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, international aid, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, international law, Iran, Iranian Intelligence Ministry, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Declaration, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, jihadists, JNA, Josip Broz Tito, journalism, Jugoslav National Army, Jugoslavija, Juka Prazina, Juka’s Wolves, Justice and Development Party, Jusuf Prazina, Kasim Blekić, Kemalism, Kemalists, Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KOS, Koševo Hospital, Kravica massacre, Krso Ramiz, Larks, League of Communists, Lewis MacKenzie, Lisbon Agreement, Macedonia, Mate Boban, media, Mirsad Tokača, Montenegro, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Muslims, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Mušan Topalović, Naser Orić, nationalism, NATO, Nazis, Nedžad Ugljen, New York Times, Nikola Gardović, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Odred el-Mudžahid, Omarska, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation FRAME, Operation STORM, Orthodox Christians, Osama bin Laden, Ottoman Empire, pan-Islamism, Party of Democratic Action, Patriotic League, political warfare, PR, propaganda, public relations, Radovan Karadžić, Ramiz Delalić, rape as a weapon of war, Ratko Mladić, Rebecca West, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, religion, Renate Flottau, Republic of Serbian Krajina, Republika Srpska, Risto Pustivuk, Roman Catholics, Samantha Power, Sandžak, SDA, secret police, secularism, Sefer Halilović, Senad Avdić, Serbia, Serbian Orthodox Church, Serbs, Seventh Muslim Brigade, Sledgehammer, Slobodan Milošević, Slobodna Bosna, Slovenia, Soviet Union, Srebrenica Massacre, Sretko Damjanović, SS, State Department, strategic messaging, Third Balkan War, Third World Relief Agency, Trnopolje, Turkey, United Nations, United States, Usama bin Laden, VEVAK, Vojislav Šešelj, war crimes, war rape, Young Muslims, Yugoslavia, Zvornik, Ševe, Željko Ražnatović, Ćelo on October 26, 2024 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.

Islamic State Mocks the Losses of Iran and HAMAS

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 August 2024

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Africa, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Qassam Brigades, Algeria, andad, Antisemitism, Anton Yelizarov, Ataturk, awthan, Axis of Resistance, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Benjamin Netanyahu, Crusaders, Druze, fitna, G.R. Hawting, Gerald Hawting, Grey Zone, Haman, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HUR, ICC, idolatry, International Criminal Court, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Ismail Haniyeh, Israel, Izzadeen al-Qassam Brigades, jahiliyya, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, Jewish Lobby, Jews, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, JNIM, Joint Operations Chamber, Lotus, Main Directorate of Intelligence, Mali, MBS, MBZ, military bloggers, Mohamed Salah al-Din al-Halim Zaidan, monotheism, Muhammad bin Salman, Muhammad Bin Zayed, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, mushrikeen, mushrikun, nationalism, NATO, Nikita Fedyanin, paganism, pagans, Pharaoh, polytheism, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qatar, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Resistance Axis, Russia, Saif al-Adel, Saleh al-Arouri, Saleh al-Aruri, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, separatism, shirk, Sunnis, takfir, Taliban, Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Telegram, Tuaregs, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Wagner Group on August 4, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Marks Ten Years of the Caliphate

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2024

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Antisemitism, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Burkina Faso, Burma, caliphate, Chad, China, Christianity, Christians, Crocus City Hall attack, Crusaders, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, din, Donald Trump, Fallujah, Gaza War, George W. Bush, guerrilla warfare, HAMAS, Hazimis, Hazimiyya, Hindus, holy war, idolatry, India, insurgency, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State in Somalia, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State West Africa Provinces, Islamism, Israel, ISS, ISSP, ISWAP, jahiliyya, Jerusalem, jihadism, Joe Biden, Kerman attack, kufr, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Libya, lone wolf, love wolves, Mali, Mozambique, nationalism, Niger, Nigeria, Nusayris, Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, pagans, Pakistan, PKK, polytheism, prison breaks, Ramadan, religion, Russia, Sahel, SDF, sectarianism, shirk, Sikhs, Sinai, Somalia, Speicher, spies, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, Uganda, Yemen on April 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Russia and tagged 1999 Moscow Apartment bombings, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Alexei Navalny, apartment bombings, Austria, Crocus City Hall, Germany, Iran, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, NATO, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tajiks, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey, Vladimir Putin on March 26, 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.

Islamic State Khorasan Province is Looking More Dangerous

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 6 January 2024

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This entry was posted in Iran, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output and tagged al-Qaeda, Amaq News Agency, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Austria, Central Asia, Cologne Cathedral, Ettela’at, Europe, Gaza War, Germany, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Houthis, Huthis, India, Intelligence Ministry, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamism, Israel, Khorasan Ghag, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mexico, Omar al-Muwahhid, Pakistan, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saleh al-Aruri, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, Sayf Allah al-Mujahid, Sayfullah al-Mujahid, Spain, Tajiks, terrorism, Umar al-Muwahhid, Voice of Khorasan, Yemen on January 6, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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