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What Iran’s Leaks Really Tell Us About Syrian “Interim” President Ahmad al-Shara’s Past with the Islamic State

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

This entry was posted in Iran, Syria, Syrian Insurgency and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Anas al-Sahaba, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ghraib Prison, Abu Julaybeeb, Abu Julaybib, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Filistini, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Filistini, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad Husayn al-Shara, Ahmed al-Sharaa, Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, Al-Aqsa Intifada, al-Hashd al-Shabi, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, Ali Muhammad al-Shara, Ali Muhammad al-Sharaa, Amjad Muzafar Husayn Ali al-Nuaymi, Anas Hassan Khattab, Antisemitism, Arab nationalism, Arab-Afghans, Askari Mosque, atrocities, Awakening, Ayatollah Khomeini, Ba’ath, Ba’athists, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bassam Ahmad al-Hasri, Bosnia, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corrective coup, crimes against humanity, Egypt, Fadel al-Hiyali, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawud, Haji Mutaz, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Husayn al-Shara, Husayn Ali al-Shara, Hussein al-Sharaa, Hussein Ali al-Sharaa, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ikhwan, information operation, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic resistance, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Iyad al-Tubaysi, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jaysh al-Quds, Jews, Jihadi-Salafism, jihadism, Joint Special Operations Command, Jordan, JSOC, Juhayman al-Otaybi, Juhayman al-Utaybi, Jund al-Sham, KGB, Lebanon, Maysar al-Jabouri, Maysar al-Jiburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Juburi, Mosul, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad al-Sudani, mukhabarat, muqawama, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Abd al-Latif al-Saleh, Nasserism, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinians, pan-Arabism, PLO, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, radicalism, Ruhollah Khomeini, Sabereen, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Sahwa, Salafism, Saleh al-Hamawi, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, Second Intifada, secret police, Sednaya, September 11 attacks, Shah, shari’a, Shi’a militias, Six-Day War, Soviet Union, Special Groups, suicide bombers, Surge, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taji Prison, terrorism, The Army of Jerusalem, United Arab Republic, Wahhabism, Zarqawists on May 3, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Profile of Islamic State “Heroic Commander” Jarrah al-Shami

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Sulayman al-Utaybi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Jarrah al-Shami, al-Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Anbar, assassination, Awakening, Battle of Fallujah, Fallujah, Haditha, Hamid al-Zawi, Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, Ibn Jarrah al-Shami, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Jarrah al-Shami, jihadism, Muawiya al-Qahtani, Mujahideen Shura Council, Operation PHANTOM FURY, Pakistan, Ramadi, Sahwa, special operations, Syria, The Battle of Donkey Island, The Battle of Life, tribes on April 30, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Changes Course in Dealing With the Tribes, Holds Its Ground Against Democracy

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Abu Umar al-Baghdadi Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Karim al-Samarra’i, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Righal, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Accord Front, Adnan al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Janabi, Al-Furqan Media Foundation, Awakening, Ba’athism, Ba’thism, Christianity, Christians, democracy, Dhafir al-Ani, elections, Fallujah, Hamid al-Zawi, ideology, Imam Husayn, Iran, Iraq, Iraqiya, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq, jihadism, Kurds, Mahmoud al-Mashadani, Mahmud al-Mashadani, Muhammad al-Dayni, Muslim Brotherhood, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuri al-Maliki, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, Rafi al-Issawi, Sahwa, Salafism, Salam al-Zuba’i, sectarianism, Shi’a, Sunnis, Tariq al-Hashemi, Tariq al-Hashimi, Tawafuq, terrorism, tribes on April 4, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Celebrates Trump Ambushing Zelensky in the Oval Office

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba, Russia and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Naba, America, America First, China, Communism, Crusader, Donald Trump, Europe, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, NATO, Russia, Second World War, Ukraine, United States, Volodymyr Zelensky on March 30, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

The Alawi Massacres in Syria: A Blip or a Rubicon?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Christianity, Christians, Coastal Shield Forces, economy, ethnic cleansing, European Union, foreign fighters, General Security Service, Ghaith Dala, Gnosticism, GSS), Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hama massacre, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Imam Ali, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jableh, jihadism, jihadists, Latakia, Military Council to Free Syria, Miqdad Fatiha, Musa al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Neoplatonism, Nusayris, Ottoman Empire, Ottomans, Prophet Muhammad, Republican Guards, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, Shi’a, SNA, Sunnis, Syria, Syrian National Army, taqiya, Tartous, Tartus, theology, Trinity, Turkey, United States, war crimes on March 17, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Visiting Post-Revolutionary Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Hamidiyah Souq, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, Aleppo, Amin Dakaev, Bahur Chamntoub, Bakhour Chamntoub, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechnya, Christianity, Christians, coronavirus, COVID-19, Damascus, Druze, economy, Farah al-Atassi, foreign fighters, Fourth Division, Hamidiya Souq, Harun, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Idlib, Ignatius Aphrem II, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Kurds, Maher al-Assad, National Dialogue Conference, Nusayris, Patriarch of Antioch, refugees, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, shari’a, SNA, Syria, Syriac Orthodox Christianity, Syrian National Army, Tacitus, Turkey, Umayyad Mosque, Umayyad Square on March 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Rome’s Worst Emperor? Assessing the Sources About Elagabalus

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 February 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Aelius Lampridius, Alexander Severus, Alexander the Great, Alexandria, Annia Faustina, Antoninus Pius, Apis, Apollo, Aquilia Severa, Arbela, archaeology, Armenia, Artabanus IV, Arval Brethren, Arval Brotherhood, Arval Brothers, Assyrian Empire, Assyrians, Augustan History, Augustus, Aurelian, Aurelius Eubulus, Aurelius Zoticus, Aventine Hill, Ba’al, Babylonian Empire, Babylonians, Baetyl, Baths of Caracalla, Black Stone, Caligula, Caracalla, Carrhae, Cassius Dio, Christianity, Christians, Chronographia, Claudius, Claudius Gothicus, Cleopatra VII, Clodius Albinus, coins, Colossus of Nero, Commodus, Constantine, Constitutio Antoniniana, Crisis of the Third Century, cruelty, cultic practices, cults, Cybele, damnatio memoriae, dediticii, Diadumenian, Dictator Perpetuo, Diocletian, Dionysus, Dominate, Domitius Ulpianus, Edward Gibbon, Egypt, Elagabal, Elagabalium, Elagabalus, Emesa, Emesene dynasty, eques, equestrians, Erbil, Five Good Emperors, foreigners, Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, Gaius Julius Alexion, Gaius Julius Avitus Alexianus, Galba, galli, Gannys, Gaul, Gladiator (2000), Great Mother, Greek, Hadrian, Harran, Heliogabalus, Hellenism, Hercules, Herodian, Hierocles, Historia Augusta, Historia Romana, History, History of the Empire from the Death of Marcus, homosexuality, Imperial History, inscriptions, ISIS, Islam, John Malalas, Julia Avita Mamaea, Julia Cornelia Paula, Julia Domna, Julia Maesa, Julia Soaemias Bassiana, Julius Bassianus, Julius Caesar, Jupiter, Justin Martialis, King Sohaemus, Latin, liberti, Lord Macaulay, Lucius Septimius Bassianus, Macrinus, Magna Mater, Marcus Aemilius, Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Caesar, Marcus Aurelius Cleander, Marcus Macrinus, Mark Antony, Mars, Mars the Avenger, Mary Beard, Maximian, Maximinus Thrax, Memphis, Milvian Bridge, Mithras, moon god, Nero, Octavian, Osiris, Osiris-Apis, Osorapis, Osrhoene, paganism, pagans, Palatine Hill, pantheon, Parthians, patricians, peregrini, Perpetual Dictator, Pharaonic Egypt, plague, plebians, Pompey, Pompey Magnus, Pompey the Great, Praetorians, prejudice, Princeps Civitatis, Principate, Probus, provincials, Ptah, Ptolemies, Ptolemy I Soter, Ptolemy III, Publius Geta, Publius Valerius Comazon, res publica, Roman Empire, Roman Republic, Romanitas, Romans, Sampsigeramid dynasty, Saqqara, Sardanapalus, Sasanians, Sassanians, Saturn, scandal, Senate, Septimius Severus, Serapeum, Serapio, Serapis, Severus Alexander, Sin, slavery, slaves, Sohaemus, Sol Invictus, Sophene, stereotypes, Suetonius, sun god, syncretic god, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Theodosius I, Third Gallic Legion, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Tiberinus, Trajan, transgender, Ulpius Julianus, Unconquered Sun, Varius Avitus Bassianus, Vespasian, Vestal Virgin, York on February 7, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

California’s Wildfires and Sudan’s Civil War: Latest Islamic State Editorials

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Abdul Qadir Mumin, Afghanistan, Africa, Al-Karrar, al-mulhidun, al-Naba, Antisemitism, assassination, atheism, Bilal-al-Sudani, Boko Haram, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, China, Christianity, Christians, Communism, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, din, Gaza, Hell, Hemedti, Horn of Africa, ideology, Ikhwan, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, jahiliyya, Janjaweed, Jews, jihad, jihadism, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, monotheism, Mozambique, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Nigeria, North Kivu, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinians, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Puntland, Qatar, Rapid Support Forces, RSF, SAF, Somalia, Sudan, Sudanese Armed Forces, Sudanese Civil War, Syria, Taliban, Tawhid, terrorism, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, wildfires on January 27, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

New Orleans and the Islamic State’s Policy on Lone-Actor Terrorism

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abbasids, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, America, Banner of the Eagle, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, bay’a, Black Banner, Black Standard, Christianity, Christians, Christmas, Crusades, deen, din, Donald Trump, Facebook, Flag of the Eagle, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Ikhwan, inghimasi, inghimasiyyun, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihad, jihadism, Joe Biden, Khorasan, lone wolf, lone wolves, manhaj, Meta, methodology, mujahideen, murji’a, Muslim Brotherhood, New Year, Pakistan, Raya al-Uqab, secularism, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, Syria, terrorism, United States, Yemen on January 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah al-Baz, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Nasser al-Qardash, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abdullah bin Najm al-Hilali, Abdullah Qardash, Abdulrahman al-Qaduli, Abdulrahman Ibn Mustafa al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, Abu Abdulrahman al-Dulaymi, Abu Ahmad al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Shami, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri, Abu al-Hareth, Abu al-Harith, Abu al-Harith al-Iraqi, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu al-Nasr al-Libi, Abu al-Nasser al-Libi, Abu Ala al-Afri, Abu Ala al-Qurayshi, Abu Alaa al-Afri, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ali al-Qurdash al-Turkmani, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Azzam al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu Azzam al-Iraqi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Zaydi, Abu Iman, Abu Ishaq al-Askari, Abu Jasim al-Iraqi, Abu Khattab al-Falluji, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muhammad al-Ghassani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abu Nabil al-Zubaydi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Shahd al-Mashadani, Abu Sulayman al-Nasser, Abu Talha al-Ansari, Abu Talha al-Hamdani al-Adnani, Abu Talha al-Mawsuli, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Qurdash, Abu Umar al-Shihawi al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Bilawi, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Al-Faqih Abu Khattab al-Dulaymi, Al-Harari, Al-Haras al-Jamhuri al-Khas, Al-Jazeera Camp, al-Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, Al-Nasser Lideen Allah, Al-Qa’qa ibn Amr, al-salaf al-salih, Al-Salul, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Ansar al-Islam, Arab Empire, Army of Hardship, Army of Truth, Awwad al-Zuba’i, Awwad al-Zuba’i al-Qahtani, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidi, Baghuz, Battle of Fallujah, Battle of Tal Afar, Caliphate Army, Coptic Christians, Copts, Dar Islami, Delegated Committee, Du’a Khalil Aswad, extremism, Fadel al-Hiyali, faith campaign, Faiz al-Athari, Fallujah, Grand Mufti, Group of Monotheism and Salafism, Haji Abdullah al-Afri Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawood, Haji Dawud, Haji Iman, Haji Mutaz, Hamid al-Ani, Hamid al-Muhammadi, Hamid al-Salafi, Hamid al-Zawa, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hilal al-Ameri, Hilf al-Mutayibeen, HTS, Hudayfa al-Batawi, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, IIP, Iran, Iraq, Iraq al-Ameri, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jahiliyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Salafiyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jaysh al-Siddiq, Jaysh al-Usra, Jaysh Dabiq, Jaysh Khilafa, jihadism, jihadists, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Khalidiya Island, Kharijites, Khattab al-Ameri, Khattab al-Faysal, khawarij, Kurdistan, Libya, Manaf al-Rawi, Maysar al-Jaburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Jaburi, monotheism, Muayyad al-Salih, Muayyad Talih, muhajireen, Muhammad al-Issawi, Muhammad Khalaf Shakar, Muharib al-Jaburi al-Qahtani, mujahideen, Mujahideen Shura Council, Mullah Krekar, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Najmadin Faraj Ahmad, Numan al-Zaydi, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yusuf Juma, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, pious predecessors, Prophet Muhammad, RAND Corporation, Rawa Camp, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafis, Salafism, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Shaker al-Badri, shari’a, Shi’ism, Subhi al-Badri, Sulayman Khalid Darwish, Syria, Taha Abd al-Raheem Abdallah Bakr al-Ghassani, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tanzim al-Qaeda, terrorism, Thamir al-Dulaymi, Umar al-Assafi, Umar bin Hadid al-Dulaymi, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Wahhabi, Wahhabism, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Yasin Qardash, Yazidis on January 11, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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