By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024
Tag Archives: Muammar al-Qaddafi
Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023
The Devastation of South Africa is What Always Happens When a Soviet Asset Gets to Power
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 September 2023
The Death of Al-Qaeda’s Leader Ayman al-Zawahiri: One Year On
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 July 2023
The Shah’s Perspective on the Islamic Revolution That Toppled Him
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 October 2022
Britain Won the Spy War with the Irish Republican Army
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 July 2022
Bloody Sunday and the Irish Republican Army
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 June 2022
Qassem Sulaymani and the Future of Iran’s Imperial Project
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 7 January 2020
This article was originally published at European Eye on Radicalization
At 1 AM on 3 January, an American drone strike killed the head of Iran’s Quds Force, the division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) charged with exporting the Islamic revolution, and his Iraqi deputy, Jamal al-Ibrahimi (Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis). Sulaymani was the strategic driver of Iran’s expansionist policy in the Middle East, as well as the orchestrator of its terrorism and assassinations further afield. Unlike with the killing of Al-Qaeda’s Usama bin Laden in 2011 or the Islamic State’s Ibrahim al-Badri (Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) in October, where the dynamics shifted little, Sulaymani’s death opens up questions about the direction in which the Middle East will now move. Continue reading
The Shah, the Cold War, and the Islamists
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 March 2019
Abbas Milani’s The Shah gives a portrait of Iran’s last monarch, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi, and the impact that his downfall forty years ago continues to have in the Middle East, notably the emboldening of the Islamist movement. Continue reading
Israel Returns to Africa
Published at The Arab Weekly
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2019
Diplomatic relations between Israel and Chad have been restored after a half century of separation. This was a symbolic breakthrough with a Muslim-majority African country, albeit one in the works for some time. It is an illumination of Israel’s changed geopolitical circumstances, some aspects sustainable, some more wishful and illusory.Continue reading