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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.

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.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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.

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.

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi: Bringing the Islamic State to Saddam’s Iraq and Joining Al-Qaeda

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 June 2023

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This entry was posted in Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Speeches, History, Islamic Militancy, Islamic State Strategy, Jihadi Biographies, Saddam and Islamism and tagged 1920 Revolution Brigade, 1991 Iraqi revolts, Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim, Abd al-Majid al-Khoe’i, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Abdallah al-Rawi, Abu Abdullah, Abu al-Bara al-Kuwaiti, Abu al-Qasim al-Khoe’i, Abu al-Qassam al-Urduni, Abu Ali, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Bakr Naji, Abu Dajana al-Iraqi, Abu Faraj al-Libi, Abu Firas, Abu Hammam al-Suri), Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hamza Rabia, Abu Ja’far al-Iraqi, Abu Julaybib al-Urduni, Abu Khattab al-Ansari, Abu Maaz, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Musab al-Suri, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, Abu Umar al-Kurdi, Abu Zubaydah, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Hamla al-Imaniya, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Ali Berjak, Ali Bourjaq, Ali Mustafa Yussef Siam, Ansar al-Islam, Antisemitism, AQI, AQM, Arab nationalism, Armed Islamic Group, Army of Muhammad, Askari Mosque bombing, Atiya Abd al-Rahman, Atiyya, Ayad Allawi, Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri, Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Baath Party, Baathism, Baathists, Badr Brigade, Badr Corps, Bashar al-Assad, Bayat al-Imam, Blackwater, caliphate, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colin Powell, Dawa Party, Diana Dean, Duelfer Report, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, Eugene Armstrong, Ezzedine Salim, faith campaign, Fallujah, Faruq al-Suri, Faysal al-Mutayri, Faysal bin Zayd al-Mutayri, former regime elements, FREs, General Intelligence Directorate, George Tenet, Germany, GIA, GID, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hadi al-Ameri, HAMAS, Hamid Karzai, Hizb al-Awda, IIS, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, Iraq War, Iraqi Intelligence Service, ISI, Islamic Army of Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, Israel, Issam al-Barqawi, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Iyad Allawi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jack Armstrong, Jack Hensley, Jadriya bunker incident, Jalal Talabani, Jamaa al-Salafiyya al-Mujahideen fi al-Iraq, Jamal al-Ibrahimi, Jamal al-Misrati, Jaysh al-Islami al-Iraqi, Jaysh al-Mahdi, Jaysh Muhammad, Jaysh Omar, Jaysh Umar, Jews, jihadism, Jordan, Jund al-Sham, Karbala, Kataib Thawrat al-Ishreen, KDP, Ken Bigley, Khadr Abu Hoshar, Khaled al-Aruri, Khudair Abbas al-Ubaydi, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Kurds, Kuwait, Laurence Foley, Mahdi Army, Manaf al-Rawi, Mao Zedong, Margaret Thatcher, Masud Barzani, Millennium Plot, Mohamed Abu Dhess, Muhammad Kazem al-Janabi, Muhammad Khalil al-Hakaymah, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, mujahideen, mukhabarat, Mullah Atari, Muqtada al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Faraj Muhammad Muhammad Masud al-Jadid al-Uzaybi, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Najaf, Nicholas Berg, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yousef Juma’a, Omar Yusef Juma, Omar Yusef Juma’a, Operation DAWN, Operation DESERT STORM, Operation PHANTOM FURY, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, pan-Arabism, Party of the Return, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Paul Bremer, Peshmerga, PIJ, PLO, PROJECT 111, PUK, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Raed Hijazi, Revolution of Purple Ink, revolutionary warfare, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sadrist Movement, Saif al-Adl, Salafi Group of Holy Warriors in Iraq, Salafism, Salem bin Suweid, Sami Muhammad Ali Said al-Jaaf, Samir Hijazi, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SCIRI, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, sharia, Shi’a militias, Shi’a revolt, Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Sunni Arabs, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Syria, takfir, takfirism, Taliban, Tandheem Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tawhid cell, terrorism, Thamir al-Rishawi, The Management of Savagery, Thirwat Shehata, tribes, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wahhabism, weapons of mass destruction, WMD, Yasser Arafat, Yasser Freihat, Yusuf al-Dardiri, Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn on June 20, 2023 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.

The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Khamene’i, Anthony Parsons, Anwar al-Sadat, Atatürk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine the Great, China, Cold War, Communism, craze, Ebrahim Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini, Ekaterina II, Fakhr Arai, French Revolution, Great Civilisation, Hizballah, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, human rights, Ibrahim Yazdi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Kemalism, laik, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, liberalisation, liberals, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahsa Amini, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, mujahideen, Mustafa Kemal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicolae Ceausescu, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Parviz Sabeti, Persia, Peter the Great, PLO, propaganda, religion, Reza Khan, Reza Shah, Robert Huyser, Russian Revolution, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, SAVAK, secularism, Shah, Soviet Union, Sun King Louis XIV, terrorism, Tsar Pyotr I, Tudeh, Turkey, Westernisation, White Revolution, William Sullivan, women’s rights on October 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

The ‘Strategic Plan’ of the Islamic State

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 August 2022

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Strategy, Jihadi Output and tagged A Strategic Plan to Improve the Political Situation of the Islamic State of Iraq, A Strategic Plan to Strengthen the Political Situation of the Islamic State of Iraq, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Dawla, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Ali Khamenei, America, Ansar al-Islam, Ansar al-Sunnah, asabiyya, assassination, Awakening, Ayman al-Zawahiri, baqiya, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Christians, clans, dawa, Fallujah Memorandum, hadd, HAMAS, hudud, Ibrahim al-Badri, insurgency, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq, Islamism, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jews, jizya, Khutta istratijiyya li-ta’ziz al-mawqif al-siyasi li-dawlat al-Iraq al-Islamiyya, Kurdistan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mufakirat al-Fallujah, mujahideen, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Muslim Brotherhood, Osama bin Laden, propaganda, Prophet Muhammad, proselytism, Saddam Hussein, Sahwa, Salafism, sharia, Soviet Union, Strategic Plan, Sun Tzu, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taliban, terrorism, tribes, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Tai on August 16, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

One Year On: The Ongoing Consequences of Abandoning Afghanistan

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 15 August 2022

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan and tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ashraf Ghani, Ayman al-Zawahiri, CENTCOM, Central Command, Doha deal, Donald Trump, Forever Wars, Frank McKenzie, Hamid Karzai International Airport, Haqqani Network, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, ISI, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, jihadism, Joe Biden, Kabul International Airport, Mark Frerichs, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Paul Overby, refugees, Special Immigrant Visas, Taliban, terrorism, Usama bin Laden on August 15, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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