By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 March 2026
Fourth Speech of Islamic State Spokesman Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari
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Tag Archives: foreign fighters
Can Syria’s Future Escape Ahmad al-Shara’s Past?
How Much Responsibility Does the Syrian State Have for the Alawi Massacres?
Ahmad al-Shara Met Donald Trump, and the Islamic State is Not Pleased
The Alawi Massacres in Syria: A Blip or a Rubicon?
Visiting Post-Revolutionary Syria
The Prevent Review: What Went Wrong in British Counter-Extremism Policy
The Fall of Afghanistan and Western Foreign Fighters
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 February 2022
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, fell to jihadists on 15 August 2021, and this has emboldened the jihadist movement across the world, providing it with a morale boost and a model, as well as renewing the terrorist safe haven that incubated 9/11. Continue reading
The West and its Foreign Terrorist Fighters
Published at The Arab Weekly
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 June 2019
An Islamic State being led into the Iraqi Criminal Court in Baghdad, 5 May 2019 (AP)
From May 26 to June 3, Iraq’s government sentenced to death 11 Islamic State operatives who had been captured in Syria. The novelty in the cases was that the Iraqis said the militants were French and ten of them were. The other was Tunisian.
The French government has made a pro forma protest against the death sentences but did nothing to impede the process. This is of a piece with the general approach European countries, including Britain, have taken to their citizens who joined jihadi groups in the Levant. Continue reading
Islamic State Says the West Has Admitted the Group Cannot Be Defeated
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 March 2019
Front page of Al-Naba 170
The 170th edition of Al-Naba, the Islamic State (IS) newsletter, was produced on 21 February 2019. Its main editorial on page 3 focused on the organisation’s apparent “inability to surrender”. Continue reading
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