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Islamic State Spokesman Marks Ten Years of the Caliphate

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2024

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Antisemitism, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Burkina Faso, Burma, caliphate, Chad, China, Christianity, Christians, Crocus City Hall attack, Crusaders, deen, Democratic Republic of the Congo, din, Donald Trump, Fallujah, Gaza War, George W. Bush, guerrilla warfare, HAMAS, Hazimis, Hazimiyya, Hindus, holy war, idolatry, India, insurgency, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State in Somalia, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State West Africa Provinces, Islamism, Israel, ISS, ISSP, ISWAP, jahiliyya, Jerusalem, jihadism, Joe Biden, Kerman attack, kufr, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Libya, lone wolf, love wolves, Mali, Mozambique, nationalism, Niger, Nigeria, Nusayris, Operation INHERENT RESOLVE, pagans, Pakistan, PKK, polytheism, prison breaks, Ramadan, religion, Russia, Sahel, SDF, sectarianism, shirk, Sikhs, Sinai, Somalia, Speicher, spies, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, Uganda, Yemen on April 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

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This entry was posted in Film Review, History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged Abu Iyad, Abu Jihad, active measures, Air France Flight 139, anti-Zionism, assassination, Baader-Meinhof Gang. Thomas Reuter, Ba’athism, Baruch Bar-Lev, Benny Peled, Black September, Brigitte Kuhlmann, Brigitte Schulz, Bruce MacKenzie, Charles Bronson, Che Guevara Group Gaza Brigade, Colonel Gaddafi, colonialism, Communism, Dan Shomron, David Opatoshu, Dawson’s Field hijackings, Doctor’s Plot, Dora Bloch, East Germany, Eddie Constantine, Egypt, Einsatzgruppen, El Al Flight LY512, Entebbe raid, FATAH, Gamal Abdel Nasser, genocide, George Habash, Greek Orthodox Christian, Horst Buchholz, hostages, ideology, IDF, Idi Amin, Iraq, Israel, Israel Defence Force, John Saxon, Jomo Kenyatta, Jordan, Joseph Stalin, Kenya, KGB, Khalil al-Wazir, Libya, Marxism-Leninism, Menachem Begin, Michel Bacos, Mivtsa Yonatan, MOSSAD, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Munich massacre, Nairobi five, Nazis, October 7 Pogrom, Operation THUNDERBOLT, Operation WRATH OF GOD, Operation YONATAN, Ottoman Empire, Palestine Liberation Organisation, pan-Arabism, Peter Finch, PFLP, PLO, political warfare, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, RAF, Red Army Faction, Revolutionary Cells, Revolutionäre Zellen, Saddam Hussein, Salah Khalaf, Sayeret Matkal, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Operations Group, STASI, Stephen Macht, Syria, Uganda, Wadi Haddad, Wilfried Böse, Yasser Arafat, Yekutiel Adam, Yigal Allon, Yitzhak Rabin, Yonatan Netanyahu, Yoni Netanyahu on February 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged African National Congress, ANC, Angola, assassination, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, corruption, crime, Cuba, Cyril Ramaphosa, East Germany, Horst Kleinschmidt, ideology, Intelligence, KGB, Libya, MK, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, murder, Nelson Mandela, racism, SACP, secret police, South Africa, South African Communist Party, Soviet Third World Strategy, Soviet Union, STASI, terrorism, Umkhonto we Sizwe on September 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022

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This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Khamene’i, Anthony Parsons, Anwar al-Sadat, Atatürk, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bolshevik coup, Bolshevik Revolution, Catherine the Great, China, Cold War, Communism, craze, Ebrahim Yazdi Ruhollah Khomeini, Ekaterina II, Fakhr Arai, French Revolution, Great Civilisation, Hizballah, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, human rights, Ibrahim Yazdi, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islam, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, Jafar Sharif-Emami, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, Kemalism, laik, Lebanon, Leonid Brezhnev, liberalisation, liberals, Liberation Movement of Iran, Libya, LMI, Mahsa Amini, Mehdi Bazargan, Mohammad Kazem Shariatmadari, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, mujahideen, Mustafa Kemal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Ngo Dinh Diem, Nicolae Ceausescu, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Parviz Sabeti, Persia, Peter the Great, PLO, propaganda, religion, Reza Khan, Reza Shah, Robert Huyser, Russian Revolution, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, SAVAK, secularism, Shah, Soviet Union, Sun King Louis XIV, terrorism, Tsar Pyotr I, Tudeh, Turkey, Westernisation, White Revolution, William Sullivan, women’s rights on October 30, 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.

United Nations Report Finds Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reduced, But Reviving

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 July 2022

Islamic State in Palmyra, December 2016

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This entry was posted in Islamic Militancy and tagged Abd al-Haq al-Turkestani, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abd al-Rahman al-Maghrebi, Abd al-Raouf al-Muhajir, Abdelmalek Droukdel, Abdoul Salam Dicko, Abdul Qadir Mumin, Abu Abdullah ibn Umar al-Barnawi, Abu Ahmed al-Madani, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Dujana al-Iraqi, Abu Hammam al-Suri, Abu Hamza al-Khalidi, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza Sharqiyah, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Turkestani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Ithawi, Abu Qarwani, Abu Qasim, Abu Sayyaf Group, Abu Ubayda, Abu Ubayda Yusuf al-Anabi, Abu Umayr al-Hadhrami, Abu Yahia al-Jazairi, Abu Yaseer Hassan, Abu Zacharia, Abubakar Shekau, ADF, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahlu-Sunnah Wa-Jama, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Diriye, Ahmed Hamed Hussain al-Ithawi, Ahmed Umar, Al-Anfal office, Al-Faruq office, Al-Furqan office, Al-Hawl, Al-Hol, Al-Karrar office, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Al-Sham office, Al-Siddiq office, Al-Sinaa prison, Algeria, Allied Democratic Forces, Amadou Boucary, Amadou Koufa, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, and Burkina Faso, Ansar Allah, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Ansarallah, Ansaru, Ansarul Islam, AQAP, AQIM, AQIS, Ashan Sumut, Asidan Ag Hitta, ASWJ, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba Idrisa, Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai, Bitcoin, Boko Haram, China, cryptocurrency, Delegated Committee, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement, Egypt, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, espionage, ETIM, Europe, Faharudin Hadji Satar, Faknane Ag Taki, Faruq al-Suri, Faysal al-Khalidi, France, GRU, guerrilla war, Habib Yusuf, Haji Hamid, Haji Zayd, Harakat al-Shabab al-Mujahideen, Hasan Mahsum, hawala, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, Hittin Committee, Houthis, HTS, Huthis, Idlib, insurgency, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISGS, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Central African Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Islamic State in West Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Mozambique, Islamic State Sahel Province, Islamic State Sinai Province, Islamic State's Central African Province, ISSP, ISWAP, Iyad Ag Ghaly, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jafar Dicko, Jamaat Ansarullah, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen, Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad, Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina fi Biladis Sudan, JASDJ, Jer Mimbantas, JNIM, Juma Awad al-Badri, Kaiwusair, Kosovo, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lake Chad basin, Libya, Macina Liberation Front, Malam Bako, Mali, Memetiming Memeti, Muhammad Abbatay, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Niger, Nigeria, Operation BARKHANE, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, PKK, refugees, Russia, Sa’ad bin Atef al-Awlaki, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salih bin Salim bin Ubayd Abolan, Sami Jassim al-Jaburi, Samir al-Bourhan, Samir Hijazi, Sanaullah Ghafari, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, SDF, Seka Musa Baluku, Sekou Muslimu, Shahab al-Muhajir, Sidan Ag Hitta, sleeper cells, Somalia, spies, Sudan, Syria, Syrian Democratic Founders, Tajikistan, Talha Al-Libi, Taliban, Tamim al-Kurdi, Tandheem Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan, terrorism, TTP, Turkistan Islamic Party, Uganda, Ukraine, Umm al-Qura office, United Nations Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, Usama bin Laden, Uyghurs, Vanguards for the Protection of Muslims in Black Africa, Vladimir Putin, Wagner Group, wilayats, Xinjiang, Yahia Abu Amar, Yahia Djouadi, Yazid Mabrak, Yazid Mebrak, Yemen, Zu al-Nurayn office on July 30, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Britain Won the Spy War with the Irish Republican Army

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2022

An IRA parade in Belfast || Image source

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This entry was posted in British Politics, History and tagged Agent 3007, Agent CAROL, Airey Neave, Anthony McIntyre, Army Council, assassination, Belfast Agreement, Billy McKee, Black September, Bloody Sunday, Bogside, British, Catholic, Colonel Gaddafi, counter-intelligence, Denis Donaldson, Eamon Collins, espionage, Eva Martin, Fianna, Freddie Scappaticci, Garda, Gardai, General Headquarters, Gerry Adams, GHQ, Glenfada Park, Good Friday Agreement, Green Book, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Ian Gow, ideology, INFLICTION, Intelligence, Internal Security Unit, IRA, Iran, Ireland, Irish Republican Army, ISU, Jean McConville, Joe Buck, Joe Haughey, John Haughey, John Joe Magee, John Major, Kenneth Campbell, KGB, Kim Philby, Konstantin Volkov, Lebanon, Libya, Margaret Thatcher, Martin McGartland, Martin McGuinness, MI5, MI6, Michael Oatley, mole, Moscow Centre, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Northern Ireland, Nutting Squad, Official Irish Republican Army, OIRA, Operation BANNER, Operation KENOVA, Orange Lodge, Orange Order, Palestine Liberation Organization, Peter Flanagan, PIRA, PLO, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Princess Diana, Protestant, Provisional Irish Republican Army, provocation, Real IRA, Robert Bradford, Rossville Flats, Roy McShane, Royal Ulster Constabulary, RUC, Saville Inquiry, SBS, Sean O’Callaghan, Secret Intelligence Service, sectarianism, Section IX, Security Service, Sinn Fein, Sir Anthony Berry, SIS, Soviet Union, Special Boat Service, spies, Spy War, STAKEKNIFE, Syria, terrorism, The Cook Report, The Troubles, Thomas Murphy, Tony Blair, torture, touts, UDA, UDR, Ulster, Ulster Defence Association, Ulster Defence Regiment, wetwork, Willie Carlin on July 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 June 2022

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This entry was posted in British Domestic Terrorism, British Politics, History and tagged 1 PARA, African National Congress, ANC, “Red” Mickey Doherty, Battle of the Bogside, Belfast Agreement, Black Friday, Bloody Sunday, Brian Faulkner, Britain, Catholics, Colonel Gaddafi, Damien Donaghy, David Montgomery, Domhnall MacDermott, Easter Rising, Father Daly’s gunman, Fianna, First Battalion Parachute Regiment, Gerald Donaghey, Gerard McKinney, Good Friday Agreement, Green Book, Hafez al-Assad, HAMAS, INFLICTION, informant, information war, Intelligence, IRA, Iran, Irish Republican Army, Israel, Jaleh Square, John Johnston, KGB, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Libya, Londonderry, Loyalists, LTTE, Martin McGuinness, Michael Doherty, Michael O’Riordan, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Nationalists, Nazi Germany, NICRA, Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association, Official IRA, OIRA, OIRA 4, Operation BANNER, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Patrick Doherty, peace process, Peter Gilgun, PIRA, PLO, political warfare, propaganda, Protestants, Provisional IRA, Provos, Reg Tester, Republicans, Royal Ulster Constabulary, RUC, Saville Inquiry, Seán Russell, sectarianism, Sharpeville massacre, Sinn Fein, Soldier F, South Africa, Soviet Union, spy, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tamil Tigers, terrorism, Ulster Volunteer Force, Unionists, UVF, Widgery Tribunal, Yuri Andropov on June 28, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

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