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Israel Moves to Disarm Iran

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 13 June 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Iran Deal and tagged anticipatory self-defence, ballistic missile program, Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, Europe, Fordow, Gaza War, Gholamali Rashid, Hossein Salami, Intelligence, international law, Iran, IRGC, Isfahan, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Mohammad Bagheri, MOSSAD, Natanz, nuclear weapons, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Operation RISING LION, pre-emptive war, preventive war, terrorism on June 13, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Was Islam’s Ka’ba Always in Mecca?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 June 2025

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This entry was posted in History of Islam and tagged Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, Abbasids, Abbasids Revolution, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abdallah Ibn al-Zubayr, Abraham, Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam, al-Bayt al-Haram, Al-Bukhari, al-huruf al-muqatta’at, Al-Mahdi, Al-Mansur, al-Masjid al-Haram, Al-Naubakht, Al-Saffah, Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya, Al-Tabari, Anastasius of Sinai, Anastasius Sinaita, Angel Gabriel, Angel Yahoel, angelology, angels, Apocalypse of Abraham, Arab conquests, asbab al-nuzul, Baghdad, Black Stone, Byzantines, Byzantium, China, Christianity, Christians, Church Fathers, Church of Saint Lot, Constitution of Medina, Copts, Dan Gibson, Doctrina Jacobi, Dome of the Rock, exegesis, Gawr al-Safi, Gawr as-Safi, Gerald Hawting, Ghassanids, gnostic gospels, Gomorrah, Gospel of Basilides, Gospel of James, Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew, Hadith, Hagarenes, Hajar al-Aswad, Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Prophets, Hijaz, Himyar, House of Wisdom, Huaisheng Mosque, Humayma, Ibn Hisham, Ibn Ishaq, Ibrahim al-Imam, Imam Ali, Imam Husayn, Infancy Gospels, Iran, Ishmaelites, Islam, Islamic Tradition, Israel, Jacob of Edessa, Jews, John of Damascus, John of Sedreh, John the Stylite, John Wansbrough, Jordan, Josephus, Judaism, Kaaba, ka’ba, Kitab al-Amwal, Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-Maghazi, Lakhmids, Late Antiquity, Levant, Lighthouse Mosque, Lot's Cave, Madaba Map, Madaba Mosaic Map, Marwah, Mashallah, Masjid al-Qiblatayn, Mecca, Mhaggraye, monks, monotheism, monotheists, Moses, Mosque of the Two Qiblas, Muawiya, muhajirun, Muhammad al-Ibrahim, mushrikun, Najran Massacre, New Testament, paganism, pagans, Palestine, para-Biblical, Patricia Crone, Persia, Petra, post-Biblical, Prophet Muhammad, Protoevangelium of James, Qibla, Qur’an, Revisionist School of Islamic Studies, Roman Empire, Romans, Sa’d ibn Abi Waqqas, Sacred House, Safa, sahaba, Sahifat al-Medina, Saint Lot's Church, Saint Paul, sanctuary, Saracens, Sasanians, Sassanians, Saudi Arabia, Sebeos, sectarian milieu, shari’a, Sirat Rasul Allah, Sodom, Sunna, Tanakh, Teaching of Jacob, The Book About the Origin of the Blessed Mary and the Childhood of the Saviour, The Sacred City, theology, Timothy I, Tom Holland, Torah, Umayyads, umma, Virgin Mary, Yathrib, Zoroastrianism on June 11, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Ahmad al-Shara Met Donald Trump, and the Islamic State is Not Pleased

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abbasids, Abdul Jashari, Abraham Accords, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Qatada al-Albani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-malahim, al-mushrikun, al-Qaeda, al-wala wal-bara, Antisemitism, aqeeda, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bible, Catholics, Chechnya, China, Dabiq, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron, exegesis, foreign fighters, Hadith, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, History, HTS, idolatry, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, isnad, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jews, jihadists, manhaj, MBS, Millat Ibrahim, monotheism, Muhammad bin Salman, munafiqun, paganism, pagans, Persia, Prophet Muhammad, Protestants, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Roman Empire, Russia, Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Sahihayn, Saudi Arabia, shari’a, shirk, Sunnis, Syria, Tawhid, theology, TIP, Turkey, Turkistan Islamic Party, Umayyads, Uyghurs, Xhemati Alban on May 30, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Meeting Protestants in Ukraine

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Russia and tagged A Jesus Mission, atheism, Austria, Battle of Poltava, Bible, Bolsheviks, Catherine the Great, Cheka, Chekists, Christianity, Cold War, Communism, Crimea, Crimean Khanate, Dnipro, Donald Trump, Donbas, Donetsk, Ekaterina II, Enlightenment, Euromaidan, Evangelical Christianity, George Floyd, Germany, Gleb Kopalin, God, Golden Horde, Greek Catholic Uniates, GRU, Habsburgs, Hezbollah, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Ignatius Aphrem II, Igor Pilipyshka, Intelligence, Israel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Jews for Jesus, KGB, Kharkiv, Kievan Rus, Kyiv Jewish Messianic Congregation, Latin Christendom, Lebanon, Left-Bank Ukraine, Little Green Men, Luhansk, Maidan Uprising, Mariupol, Mercy House, Minsk I, Minsk II, Mongols, NATO, Nazis, Nicodemites, Orthodox Christianity, Ottoman Empire, Poland, Protestantism, Protestants, Prussia, Reformation, religion, religious persecution, Right-Bank Ukraine, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Save One More Life, Second World War, secularism, siloviki, Soviet Union, spies, Stephen Smith, Syria, Twitch, Ukrainian Cyborgs, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, White Angels, Zaporizhiya on May 28, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

HAMAS Reportedly Admits To Being in Crisis

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Iran, Islamic Militancy, Israel and tagged Al-Aqsa Flood, Al-Qassam Brigades, Antisemitism, Asharq al-Awsat, Britain, disinformation, Donald Trump, Europe, Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, humanitarian aid, Intelligence, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Izzadeen al-Qassam Brigades, Kataib al-Shahid Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Khan Younis, Khan Yunis, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, media, misinformation, Mohammad Shabana, Mohammed Sinwar, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Operation GIDEON’S CHARIOTS, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Authority, Palestinians, PLO, political warfare, Qassam Brigades, Rafah Brigade, Saudi Arabia, Simchat Torah pogrom, United Nations, West Bank, Yahya Sinwar on May 24, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Dealing with the Conspiracy Theory that Islamic State “Never” Attacks Israel

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 May 2025

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Israel and tagged 2007 Glasgow Airport attack, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Al-Andalus, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda Central, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, Andalusia, Antisemitism, Arab nationalism, Atiya, Atiya Abd al-Rahman, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, Atiyya, Ayman Ighbariya, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Bayt al-Maqdis, caliphate, Communism, democracy, disinformation, Donald Trump, Fadi Al-Qunbar, Gaza War, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jamal al-Misrati, Jewish State, jihadism, jihadists, Jordan, Khaled Ighbariya, Lebanese Armed Forces, Mandate Palestine, Mecca, Medina, Mohammed Abu al-Kiyan, Moustapha Akkad, Muslim Brotherhood, Nashat Melhem, October 7 Pogrom, Omar Hadid, Osama bin Laden, Palestine, Palestinian Territories, pan-Arabism, PFLP, PFLP-GC, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, propaganda, radicalism, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, shari’a, Shi’a, Simchat Torah pogrom, Spain, Sunnis, Syria, Taha Falaha, Tanzim al-Qaeda fi Bilad al-Rafidayn, Umar Hadid, Usama bin Laden, USS Ashland, USS Kearsarge, Zionism on May 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 May 2025

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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.

Did 27 Million Soviet Citizens Die Fighting the Nazis?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 April 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged active measures, Adolf Hitler, anchoring, Andrei Konstantinovich Sokolov, Antisemitism, barrier troops, Central Statistical Administration, Chechnya, ChGK, Communism, communists, de-Stalinisation, demographics, extermination, Extraordinary State Commission, fascism, Gaza, Germany, Goskomstat, Great Patriotic War, GULAG, Haiti, HAMAS, Hitler-Stalin Pact, Holocaust, Holodomor, information operations, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jews, Joseph Stalin, Katyn massacre, KGB, Leningrad, Leonid Brezhnev, Michael Ellman, Mikhail Gorbachev, Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Nazis, need for closure, Nikita Khrushchev, Nuremberg Trials, Operation BARBAROSSA, Palestinians, Partisans, political warfare, propaganda, psychology, Red Army, Russia, S. Maksudov, Saint Petersburg, Second World War, Soviet Union, Stalingrad, Statistical Herald, Sudan, Syria, terrorism, Ukraine, Vestnik Statistiki, Victory Day, Viktor Zemskov, Volga Germans, Volgograd, Wehrmacht, Yemen, Yezhovshchina, Yu. A. Polyakov, zagraditelnye otriady on April 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

HAMAS Admits Lying About the Palestinian Casualties — Again

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Israel and tagged Gaza, Gaza Health Ministry, Gaza War, Government Media Office, HAMAS, human rights, Israel, media, Palestinians, political warfare, propaganda, United Nations on April 2, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Will Trump Succeed in Withdrawing From Syria This Time?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, America, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, CENTCOM, Christianity, Christians, Donald Trump, Druze, European Union, Evangelicals, genocide, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Israel, J.D. Vance, jihadism, jihadists, Joe Biden, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Marco Rubio, Nobel Peace Prize, PKK, propaganda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia, Sanctions, Sayyida Zaynab, SDF, sectarianism, State Department, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, Turkey, United States on March 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

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