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The West Needs a Strategy to Counter Iran’s “Ring of Fire”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2024

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Iran, Israel and tagged Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Artesh, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayn al-Asad Airbase, Badr Corps, Badr Organisation, Dawa Party, Donald Trump, French Revolution, Gaza, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Hadi al-Ameri, Hadi al-Amiri, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Houthis, Huthis, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jamal al-Ibrahimi, Jews, Karbala raid, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Mohammed al-Sudani, Nevatim Airbase, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Russian Revolutions, Sanctions, SCIRI, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, Shi’a jihadists, Shi’a militias, Shi’ite jihad, Special Groups, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Syria, terrorism, Unit 3800, velayat-e faqih, wilayat al-faqih, Zionism on April 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Murder, Martyrs, and Mystery: The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Alba, Albigensian Crusade, Amboise conspiracy, Anabaptists, Angoulême, Anjou, Anne d’Este, Anne du Bourg, Armada, Armenian genocide, assassinations, Aumale, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Battle of Lepanto, Bayonne, Bolsheviks, Caterina de Medici, Cathars, Catherine de Medici, Catholicism, Charles de Téligny, Charles of Louviers, Charles V, Christendom, Christianity, Christophe de Villeneuve, Condé, Council of Trent, Counter-Reformation, dark ages, Edict of Amboise, Edict of Romorantin, Edict of Saint-Germain, Elizabeth I, England, Enlightenment, extermination, Fernando de Toledo, François de Lorraine, France, Francis of Lorraine, French Parlement, French Revolution, Gaspard de Coligny, genocide, Germany, Guy Du Faur, Henri de Guise, Henri de Valois, Henry of Guise, Henry of Navarre, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, Huguenots, Ian Paisley, Ignatius of Loyola, Iran, Italy, Ivan the Terrible, Jacques de Savoie, Jean Poltrot de Méré, Jesuits, John Calvin, Ku Klux Klan, Louis de Gonzague, Lutheranism, Marguerite de Valois, Martin Luther, Mary Stuart, Mass, Maurevert, Monsoreau, Montpensier, Munster Rebellion, Nemours, Nevers, Northern Ireland, Ottomans, Papal Revolution, Philip II, pogroms, Pope, Pope Gregory VII, Pope Gregory XIII, Portugal, Prince of Orange, Protestant Wind, Protestantism, Psalms, Puritans, Puygaillard, Queen of Scots, Red Wedding, Reformation, religion, René de Birague, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Inquisition, Russia, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, sectarianism, Seigneur de Pibrac, Seigneur de Vaucluse, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Francis Walsingham, Spain, Spanish Netherlands, superstition, Surprise of Meaux, Te Deum, Terror, The Wake-Up Call for the French and their Neighbours, Thirty Years’ War, Throckmorton Plot, Transubstantiation, Ugonottorum Strages, ultra-Catholics, Vassy Massacre, Vendée, Wars of Religion on August 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023

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This entry was posted in Al-Qaeda Terrorism, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged 9/11 Commission, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdallah Azzam, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu al-Khayr, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Faraj al-Masri, Abu Hafs al-Masri, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Khalid al-Suri, Abu Khayr al-Masri, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Ubayda al-Panjshiri, Abu Yasser al-Masri, Abud al-Zumar, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Mabruk, Ahmad Salama Mabruk, Al-Azhar, al-Maktab al-Khidamat, al-Masada al-Ansar, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda al-Askariyya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabaab, Ali Amin al-Rashidi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Anwar al-Sadat, AQAP, AQI, AQIM, AQM, Arab League, Arab nationalism, Arab Spring, Arab-Afghans, Atiyya, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Azza Ahmed Nuwair, Benghazi, Bosnia, Chechnya, Christopher Stevens, Cold War, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Dr. Fadl, East African Embassy bombings, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Encep Nurjaman, faith campaign, Faruq al-Suri, Faruq Hijazi, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hambali, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hosni Mubarak, Houthis, Huthis, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Group, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamaat al-Islamiyya, Jamal Abd al-Nasr, Jamal al-Misrati, Jemaah Islamiyah, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khaled al-Islambuli, Khalid al-Islambouli, Kofi Annan, Lion’s Den of Supporters, Mali, Marxism, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad al-Bahaya, Muhammad al-Zawahiri, Muhammad Atef, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, nationalism, Nazism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, PLO, Rabia al-Zawahiri, Riduan Isamuddin, Rifai Taha, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saeed al-Masri, Sahwa, Saif al-Adl, Samir Hijazi, Saudi Arabia, Sayd al-Adl, Sayf al-Adel, Sayyed Imam al-Sharif, Sayyid Qutb, sectarianism, Services Bureau, Shah, Six-Day War, Somalia, South Vietnam, Soviet Union, Sudan, Surge, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Tamim al-Adnani, terrorism, The Blind Shaykh, U.S.S. Cole, Umar Abdurrahman, Usama bin Laden, Vietnam, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, World Trade Centre bombing, Yasin al-Suri, Yemen on July 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Turkey and tagged active measures, AKP, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blasphemy, Chang Frick, Christianity, Danish cartoons, European Committee for Prophet Honouring, Finland, Hard Line, Iran, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Jyllands-Posten, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Muslims, NATO, PKK, propaganda, Rasmus Paludan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Salman Rushdie, Saudi Arabia, secularism, Stram Kurs, Sweden, The Satanic Verses, theology, Turkey, Ukraine on January 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Rahman al-Khorasani, Abdulrahman al-Khorasani, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Jazeera, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Udeid Airbase, al-zanadiqa, Algeria, apostasy, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Breaking the Walls campaign, Burkina Faso, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diwan al-Dawa wal-Masajid, Diwan al-I’lam, Egypt, FIFA World Cup, freedom of religion, God, Gulf States, Hamid al-Zawi, Hashd al-Shabi, heretics, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State ISIS, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamists, Jews, jihad, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, liberalism, Mali, Mozambique, Nangarhar prison break, Niger, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, personal freedom, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Qatar, religion, Sahwa, Sahwat, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, Shah Cheragh shrine, sharia, shari’a, Shi’ism, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Africa, Westoxification, Wilayat al-Sahel, World Cup, Yemen, Yusuf al-Siddiq, zakat on December 4, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Naba and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abrahamic religions, Abu Aisha al-Omari, Abu Aisha al-Umari, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmed bin Musa, Ahvaz, al-Qaeda, Al-Sahaba, Ali al-Rida, Ali bin Musa al-Reza, Amaq News Agency, Amnesty International, Antisemitism, Arab conquests, Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, ASMLA, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Bashar al-Assad, Black Friday, Cambodia, Christians, Companions, conspiracy theories, Doctrina Jacobi, Evin prison, Hadith, Hamid Badakhshan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Imam Reza, Iran, Iran International, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraq War, IRGC, Ishmaelites, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic Tradition, Islamists, Israel, Jaleh Square, Jews, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Magians, Mahsa Amini, Marxist-Islamists, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, monotheism, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mujahadeen-e-Khalq, nuclear weapons, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, Prophet Muhammad, Rashidun Caliphate, Rex Cinema fire, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, Shah, Shah Cheragh, Shi’a Imams, Syria, Taliban, Teaching of Jacob, terrorism, Twelver Shi’ism, Zoroastrians on December 2, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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