Tag Archives: Hamid Karzai

Islamic State is “Globalising the Jihad”

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 September 2024

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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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Islamic State Attacks the Russian Embassy in Afghanistan, Uses it Against the Taliban

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 10 September 2022

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Islamic State Won’t Take Sides With Russia or Ukraine, Hopes For More ‘Crusader-Crusader Wars’

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 February 2022

Al-Naba 328, p. 3

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Islamic State Says the Massacre at Kabul Airport Shows They Are the True Jihadists

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 September 2021

Front page of Al-Naba 302

The Islamic State (IS) released the 302nd edition of Al-Naba, its weekly newsletter, on 2 September. The major focus of Al-Naba 302 was the 26 August bombing of the Kabul Airport by IS’s “Khorasan Province” (ISKP) that killed nearly 200 people, including thirteen members of the U.S. military (eleven marines, one soldier, and one navy corpsman), and wounded 150 people. Continue reading

Film Review: This Is What Winning Looks Like (2013) by Ben Anderson

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on May 22, 2014

Journalist Ben Anderson

Ben Anderson did his filming between 2007 and the present in Afghanistan. He presents a picture of a country in free-fall, of a West in denial, and of a war that the Allies have given up on. Continue reading