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The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025

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.

HAMAS Planned for the Massacre, Torture, and Hostage-Taking on October 7 More Than a Year in Advance

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 October 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Al-Aqsa Flood, al-Hashd al-Shabi, al-Jazeera, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, atrocities, Benjamin Netanyahu, Children of Israel, disinformation, Esmail Qaani, Gaza, Gaza War, Gilad Shalit, HAMAS, Hashd al-Shabi, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Holocaust, hostages, Houthis, IDF, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Israel Defence Force, Jewish State, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Judeocide, Lebanon, media, Mohammad Said Izadi, Muhammad Sinwar, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Operation AL-AQSA FLOOD, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, political warfare, propaganda, Qods Force, Quds Force, rape as a weapon of war, Saleh al-Aruri, Shoah, Simchat Torah pogrom, Syria, umma, Unit 8200, United Nations, war crimes, Yahya Sinwar, Yemen on October 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Russia Tries to Recover Ground in Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 18 August 2025

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This entry was posted in Russia, Syria and tagged Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, atrocities, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Communism, Donald Trump, Druze, Hamza al-Mustafa, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hmaymeem Airbase, HTS, ideology, Imperialism, IRA, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, jihadism, Khmeimim Airbase, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Libya, NATO, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PKK, PLO, Provisional Irish Republican Army, Qamishli Airport, Qatar, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, SDF, Soviet Union, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian Kurds, Tartus Naval Base, Turkey, Vladimir Putin, war crimes on August 18, 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.

The Cold War Roots of the Media Fiasco Over Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 19 October 2023

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This entry was posted in Iran, Israel, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged academia, African National Congress, Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, Al-Ahli Hospital, al-Jazeera, ANC, Antisemitism, atrocities, Barrack Obama, Black Lives Matter, CIA, Cinema Rex fire, Donald Trump, Edward Said, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, HAMAS, IDF, IRA, Iran Deal, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israeli Defence Force, Jews, journalists, Kfar Aza kibbutz, KGB, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lebanon, Mahmoud Abbas, Mahmud Abbas, Margot Haddad, Marxism, media, moral clarity, mostafeen, Munich Olympics, national liberation movements, Orientalism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PIJ, PKK, PLO, pogrom, propaganda, Ruhollah Khomeini, SAVAK, Shah, Sinn Fein, Soviet Union, terrorism, war crimes, ZAKA, Zionism on October 19, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albania, Alger Hiss, Anthony Blunt, Antisemitism, atrocities, Australia, Baltics, Berlin Blockade, Britain, Brown Scare, Cambodia, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, CCP, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, counter-intelligence, Czechoslovakia, Dean Acheson, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Doctrine of Containment, Donald Maclean, Doolittle Report, Douglas MacArthur, DPRK, Dwight Eisenhower, East Germany, Estonia, Ethel Rosenberg, Europe, FDR, Finland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Blake, Greece, Greek Civil War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Hungary, ideology, Intelligence, Iran, Iron Curtain, Japan, Jews, John Cairncross, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, Kim Il Sung, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs, Korean War, Laos, Latvia, Laurence Duggan, Lee Beom-seok, Lithuania, Magnificent Five, MANHATTAN Project, Mao Zedong, Marshall Aid, Matthew Ridgway, McCarthyism, MGB, MI6, Nagasaki, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NKVD, North Korea, NSA, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation FIEND, Operation VALUABLE, Poland, Popular Front, Red Army, Red China, Republic of Korea, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Shin Song-mo, SIS, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syngman Rhee, Turkey, United Nations, VALUABLE Project, VENONA, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Walton Walker, war crimes, William Weisband, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Workers’ Party of Korea, Yugoslavia on September 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The September Massacres: The Violence Inherent in the French Revolution

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged AbbéSicard, American Revolution, ancien régime, atrocities, Austria, Austrian Netherlands, Battle of Yorktown, Belgium, bishops, Brabant Revolution, Britain, British Empire, Brunswick Manifesto, Charles William Ferdinand, Christianity, Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution, Civil Constitution of the Clergy, Claude Antoine de Valdec de Lessart, Communism, Comte de Rochambeau, Declaration of Pillnitz, Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Duke of Brunswick, Enlightenment, Estates General, Fabre d’Eglantine, fédérés, François-Noël Babeuf, France, Frederick William II, French Revolution, genocide, George III, Georges Danton, Girondins, Guerre de Vendée, Habsburgs, Haiti, Haitian Revolution, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Inquisition, insurrection, Jacobins, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, Jean-Denis Violette, Jean-Lambert Tallien, Jean-Marie Roland, Jean-Paul Marat, Joachim Ceyrat, Jourgniac de Saint-Méard, Leopold II, lettre de cachet, liberty, Louis Collenot d’Angremont, Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Marquis de Sade, Maximilien Robespierre, monarchism, National Assembly, National Guard, Paris Commune, priests, Princesse de Lamballe, Prussia, radicalism, republicanism, Revolutionary Tribunal, Roch-Ambroise Cucurron Sicard, Roman Catholic Church, sans-culottes, secularism, September Massacres, Seven Years’ War, show trial, Siege of Yorktown, Simon Schama, slaves, Stanislas Maillard, Storming of the Bastille, Swiss Guards, Tennis Court Oath, Tenth of August Insurrection, Third Estate, Thirteen Colonies, Tuileries Palace, Vendée, Vendée War, Versailles, War in the Vendée on September 3, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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