By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025
The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025
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Tag Archives: Amaq News Agency
The Progress of the Islamic State’s New Foreign Terrorism Campaign
Islamic State Khorasan Province is Looking More Dangerous
Islamic State Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium
Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?
State Department Offers Bounty for Islamic State Propaganda Official
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 May 2020
Last night the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program announced that it would pay $3 million for information leading to the capture or killing of Muhammad Khadr Musa Ramadan, described as “a senior leader of and key propagandist for the Islamic State”. Continue reading
Islamic State Claims the Strasbourg Christmas Market Attack
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 December 2018
Strasbourg Market, 11 December 2018 [image source]
Islamic State and Lone Wolves
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 November 2018
Attack in Melbourne, Australia, 9 November 2018 (image source)
In the latest edition of its newsletter, the Islamic State (IS) explained how it had some of the terrorist attacks committed in its name around the world, where it had not had prior contact with the killers. Continue reading
American Islamic State Jihadist Plotted to Bomb Trump’s First Presidents’ Day
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 December 2017
Robert Hester (image source)
The U.S. Department of Justice indicted Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr., 25, of Columbia, Missouri, on 21 February 2017, for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State (IS) and plotting an act of domestic terrorism. The plan had been an attack on 20 February, the first Presidents’ Day of the Donald Trump administration. Continue reading
The Fall of Islamic State’s Caliphate Won’t End the Foreign Attacks
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 July 2017
Screenshots from the bay’a-martyrdom videos of: Riaz Khan Ahmadzai (Muhammad Riyad), Anis Amri, Mohammad Daleel (source)
The Islamic State (IS) has escalated a campaign of global terrorism over the past few years, exactly as it was losing overt control of territory. In 2016, IS consolidated a model of guiding and claiming attacks in the West and elsewhere via is media channel, Amaq. The outlines of this have long been known. Now there is significant new detail thanks to a four part reporting series in the German newspaper BILD by Björn Stritzel, who contacted Amaq and posed over many months—in consultation with Germany security agencies—as a potential terrorist. Continue reading
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