By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 21 October 2025
The Islamic State’s Attack Reports and Ideological Focus in Al-Naba From June to October 2025
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Islamic State Wants to Extend its War Against Christians in Africa to Europe
Islamic State Says the West is Ignoring its Terrorism Successes Because of “White Supremacy”
Islamic State Spokesman Marks Ten Years of the Caliphate
The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry
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
Islamic State Advertises its Afghan Escalation and Holding Territory in Africa
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 May 2021
Al-Naba 288, front page
The Islamic State (IS) released the 288th edition of Al-Naba yesterday, and amid the commonplace items—insurgent reports from Iraq and Syria, Egypt and Africa, its main editorial and the ideological essay(s)—the two items on its front page were most interesting. The top item was a series of reports from Afghanistan about the ongoing progress of IS as NATO draws down. The second item down was from Nigeria, about the imposition of zakat, the tax for the needy, which had some suggestive details about IS’s procurement of territory in Africa. Continue reading
Islamic State Claims the Killing of a Canadian Citizen
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 March 2019
Al-Naba 175, page 8
Kirk Woodman, a Canadian geologist working for a Vancouver-based mining company, Progress Minerals Inc., was found dead in Oudalan province, north-east Burkina Faso, on 16 January 2019. Woodman had been kidnapped the previous day from a mining camp. Ouagadougou announced that Woodman had been killed the following day. Woodman’s body was described as “bullet-riddled”. It was noted by one outlet that Woodman had been taken in “a border region infiltrated by jihadis”, but not very much more has been said of the case in the last two months. On 28 March, the Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the murder in the 175th edition of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba. Continue reading
Islamic State Urges Defiance as the Caliphate Collapses, Attacks Other Islamists
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 9 March 2019
Al-Naba 172 front page
The Islamic State (IS) released the 172nd edition of Al-Naba, its newsletter, on 7 March 2019. Continue reading
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