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An Islamic State ‘Distinguished Martyr’ Who Defected From the Taliban

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 Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2023

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Salam al-Muhajir, Abdesalem Lassoued, Abdul Salam al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, al-Naba, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, Bataclan theatre, blasphemy, Britain, Brussels, caliphate, Charlie Hebdo, Chérif Chekatt, Chechnya, Christians, DGSI, Dominique Bernard, Europe, Gaza, HAMAS, Ibrahim Boudina, invasion of Iraq, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, lone wolves, media, Mehdi Nemmouche, Mohamed Mogouchkov, NATO, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Paris, PIJ, PKK, propaganda, radicalisation, Russia, Stephen Paddock, Sweden, Taha Falaha, terrorism, Turkey on November 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Origins of Vampire Stories: When, Where, and How

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 August 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Antisemitism, Arnold Paole, Austria, bloodsuckers, Bram Stoker, caliphate, Catholicism, Central Europe, Christendom, Counter-Reformation, Devil, disease, Dracula, Enlightened despot, Enlightenment, Europe, Flückinger, folklore, Frederick the Great, Frombald, Glaser, Habsburg Empire, Habsburgs, hajduk, Hammer of Witches, Heinrich Kramer, Hell, heresy, Holy Roman Empire, homosexuality, Hungarian disease, Immanuel Kant, Imperialism, Islam, Jews, Johann Friedrich Glaser, Kievan Rus, Kisiljevo, Kucklina, Latin Christendom, Lord Byron, Malleus Maleficarum, Maria Theresa, medieval period, Medveđa, Michael Ranft, Middle Ages, Morbus hungaricus, Nachzehrer, Nazis, Nazism, Norsemen, Orthodox Christianity, orthodoxy, Ottoman Empire, paganism, pagans, Papal Revolution, Petar Blagojević, philosophe, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Prince Eugene of Savoy, propaganda, Protestantism, Romania, Saints, Salem, Salem witch trials, Satan, Satanism, Serbia, siege of Vienna, Slavs, soothsaying, sorcery, supernatural, superstition, The Chewing and Chomping of the Dead in their Graves, The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth, theology, Thiess of Kaltenbrun, Thomas Acquinas, Thomas M. Bohn, Transylvania, typhus, upiór, vampires, vampirism, Vikings, Visum et Repertum, Vlad the Impaler, werewolves, witch craze, witchcraft, witches on August 17, 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, al-Tayyar al-Salafi, 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, Salafi Trend, 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.

Islamic State Announces That Caliph Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi Is Dead

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 November 2022

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This entry was posted in Abu Umar al-Muhajir Speeches, Syria, Turkey, Turkey and ISIS and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, Abd al-Raouf al-Muhajir, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdulrahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, Abu Abdallah al-Baghdadi, Abu Abdallah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi, Abu Abdullah al-Hassani al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Atheer, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Muaz al-Iraqi, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ishaq, Abu Khattab al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Ithawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Ubayda Abd al-Hakim, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Ta’i, Ahmad al-Tai, Ahmed Hamed Hussain al-Ithawi, al-Qaeda, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Amr al-Absi, Badr Corps, Bandar al-Shaalan, Bashar al-Sumaidai, Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, caliphate, CENTCOM, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Fadel al-Hiyali, Free Syrian Army, FSA, Haji Bakr, Haji Zayd, Hamid al-Zawi, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Ibrahim al-Badri, Idlib, Iran, ISIS, Islamic State, Juma al-Badri, Juma Awad al-Badri, Kurdistan Workers Party, laconic phrase, Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, Makaram Taha Ali, Mujahideen Shura Council, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Nour Karim al-Matani, Nour Karim al-Matni, Nour Karim Al-Mutni, Nur Karim al-Matani, Nur Karim al-Matni, PKK, Professor Zayd, Rawa, Rawa Camp, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Samir al-Khlifawi, Sayf al-Baghdad, SDF, Shia militias, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Telegram, Turkey, Ustath Zayd, Wolf Brigade on November 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Has Turkey Captured the Islamic State’s “Caliph”?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Turkey, Turkey and ISIS and tagged Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza al-Kurdi, Abu Omar al-Shishani, Abu Umar al-Shishani, Abu Zayd al-Iraqi, al-Naba, Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, caliphate, Delegated Committee, Haji Hamid, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Ismail al-Ithawi, Jamal al-Mashadani, MIT, National Intelligence Organisation, Professor Zayd, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Saddam Hussein, Sami Jassim al-Jaburi, Seda Dudarkaeva, Syria, Tarkhan Batirashvili, terrorism, Turkey, Ustath Zayd on September 9, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Abu Muhammad al-Adnani Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abu Ghraib prison break, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Al-Andalus, al-Furqan Media, al-Qaeda, Al-Salul, Alawis, assassination, Bashar al-Assad, bay'a, bida, BREAKING THE WALLS, Breaking the Walls campaign, caliphate, Christians, Dajjal, dawa, disinformation, dunya, fasad, Fursan al-Balagh Media, Hamid al-Zawi, Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, Harvest of the Soldiers campaign, Heaven, Hell, idolaters, iman, insurgency, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamism, Issa, Jahannam, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, jihad, Jinnah, monotheism, Moses, mujahideen, Musa, mushrikeen, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Nusayris, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, pagans, polytheists, Qatar, Rome, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, secularism, Soldiers' Harvest campaign, Sunnis, Syria, Taha Subhi Falaha, terrorism, They Shall By No Means Harm You But With a Slight Evil, They Will Not Harm You Except for Some Annoyance on September 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Describes Running an Insurgency From the Syrian Desert

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 1 September 2022

Al-Naba 349, p. 8

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Strategy, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Africa, Al-Tanf, Badiya, Bashar al-Assad, caliphate, Christians, disinformation, Fursan al-Balagh Media, guerrilla warfare, Hadith, hijra, IEDs, improvised explosive devices, insurgency, Iran, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jaysh Maghawir al-Thawra, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Katerji militia, Liwa al-Quds, Qaterji militia, Qur'an, Revolutionary Commando Army, Russia, sectarianism, Syria, Syrian desert, terrorism, tribes on September 1, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Saddam Relative Arrested in Lebanon, Accused of Islamic State Crimes

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 August 2022

Area on the banks of the Tigris where the cadets of Camp Speicher were massacred by the Islamic State || Scott Peterson/The Christian Science Monitor

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy, Jihadi Biographies, Saddam and Islamism and tagged Abdullah Yasser Sabawi, Abdullah Yasser Sabawi al-Hassan, Abu Abdulrahman al-Bilawi, Abu al-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abul-Mughirah al-Qahtani, Adnan al-Bilawi, Ba'athists, Baathism, Barzan al-Ibrahim, Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Byblos, caliphate, Camp Speicher massacre, execution, Fedayeen Saddam, genocide, Gulf War, Houthis, Ibrahim Sabawi Ibrahim al-Hassan, IIS, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraqi Intelligence Service, IRGC, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Jebeil, Jubayl, Lebanon, Libya, mukhabarat, Muslim Brotherhood, pan-Arabism, Republican Guards, Saad Sabawi, Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Saddam Hussein, Salafi Trend, Salafism, Sanctions, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, Six-Day War, spies, The Faith Campaign, totalitarianism, Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Yemen on August 24, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State and “Breaking the Walls”: Jihadist Prison Breaks

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2022

Islamic State car bombing against Al-Sinaa prison in Syria, 20 January 2022 [image source]

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Strategy and tagged Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Afghanistan, Africa, Al-Hawl, Al-Hol, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Sinaa prison, Al-Zuhour, Al-Zuhur, Amaq, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Answer the Call campaign, Awakening, Baghouz, Baghuz, BREAKING THE WALLS, caliphate, Conoco gas plant, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghwayran, Ghweiran, Hasaka, Ibrahim al-Badri, Indonesia, Iraq, ISCAP, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Omar oilfield, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, PKK, prison breaks, propaganda, refugee camp, Roj camp, Sahwa, SDF, Surge, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Tajikistan, Taliban, terrorism, Wilayat Khorasan on January 22, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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