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What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Gulf States, Iran, Iran Deal and tagged Abqaiq attack, Abqaiq-Khurais attack, America, ARAMCO, Barack Obama, China, Donalt Trump, Egypt, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Lebanon, maximum pressure, political warfare, proxy war, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia militias, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen on March 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Al-Qaeda and Global Terrorism: What is the Current Threat?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 23 February 2023

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda Terrorism, Islamic State Strategy, Syria and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, Abd al-Malek Drukdel, Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud, Abdirizaq Abdi Saleh, Abdul Malek Drukdel, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, Abdullah al-Faisal, Abdullah al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Golani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Musab Abd al-Wadud, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, al-Shabab, Alexandre Dhaussy, Amn al-Kharji, Anwar al-Awlaki, AQAP, AQIM, Arid Uka, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bryan Bijaoui, Carlos Bledsoe, Cedric Cordier, Charlie Hebdo, Chechnya, CIA, Dagestan, Daniel Pearl, Denis Cuspert, Deso Dogg, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Fahd al-Quso, Faisal Shahzad, genocide, Germany, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hibatullah Akhundzada, Hizballah, HTS, Ibrahim al-Asiri, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jabhat Fatah al-Sham, JFS, jihadism, Jonathan Sandler, Khairiya Saber, Khaled Shaykh Muhammad, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, Kosovo, KSM, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Lee Rigby, Major Nidal Hasan, Mali, Michael Adebolajo, Michael Adebowale, Mohammed Merah, Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, Muhammad Saeed al-Shamrani, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mullah Muhammad Omar, Mullah Muhammad Umar, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Myriam Monsonego, Nashwan Abdulbaqi, NATO, One Ummah, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pakistani Taliban, Pensacola, PKK, President Joe Biden, Private Quinton Ezeagwula, Private William Long, Qasim al-Raymi, Qassem al-Raymi, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Richard Reid, Roshonara Choudhry, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saif al-Adl, Salafism, Saleh al-Somali, Sanctions, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, SDF, September 11 attacks, spies, Stephen Timms, strategy, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Tanzim Hurras al-Deen, Tanzim Hurras al-Din, Tehrik-e-Taliban, terrorism, TTP, Um Hamza, Ummah Wahidah, United States, Usama bin Laden, Waziristan, Yemen, Zionism on February 23, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Turkey Tries to Exploit the Latest “Blasphemy” Controversy in Sweden

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 January 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Turkey and tagged active measures, AKP, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, blasphemy, Chang Frick, Christianity, Danish cartoons, European Committee for Prophet Honouring, Finland, Hard Line, Iran, Islamism, Justice and Development Party, Jyllands-Posten, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Muslims, NATO, PKK, propaganda, Rasmus Paludan, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, RT, Russia, Russia Today, Salman Rushdie, Saudi Arabia, secularism, Stram Kurs, Sweden, The Satanic Verses, theology, Turkey, Ukraine on January 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Rahman al-Khorasani, Abdulrahman al-Khorasani, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, al-Jazeera, al-Naba, al-Qaeda, Al-Udeid Airbase, al-zanadiqa, Algeria, apostasy, Awakening, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Breaking the Walls campaign, Burkina Faso, Christianity, Christians, Crusaders, democracy, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diwan al-Dawa wal-Masajid, Diwan al-I’lam, Egypt, FIFA World Cup, freedom of religion, God, Gulf States, Hamid al-Zawi, Hashd al-Shabi, heretics, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, Iran, Iraq, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State ISIS, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamists, Jews, jihad, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, liberalism, Mali, Mozambique, Nangarhar prison break, Niger, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, personal freedom, PKK, Prophet Muhammad, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Qatar, religion, Sahwa, Sahwat, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, Shah Cheragh shrine, sharia, shari’a, Shi’ism, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, West Africa, Westoxification, Wilayat al-Sahel, World Cup, Yemen, Yusuf al-Siddiq, zakat on December 4, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Attacks Iran and Many Iranians Ask: Did it Really?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 2 December 2022

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This entry was posted in Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis, Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Naba and tagged Abolhassan Banisadr, Abrahamic religions, Abu Aisha al-Omari, Abu Aisha al-Umari, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmed bin Musa, Ahvaz, al-Qaeda, Al-Sahaba, Ali al-Rida, Ali bin Musa al-Reza, Amaq News Agency, Amnesty International, Antisemitism, Arab conquests, Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz, ASMLA, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Bashar al-Assad, Black Friday, Cambodia, Christians, Companions, conspiracy theories, Doctrina Jacobi, Evin prison, Hadith, Hamid Badakhshan, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Imam Reza, Iran, Iran International, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraq War, IRGC, Ishmaelites, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic Tradition, Islamists, Israel, Jaleh Square, Jews, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Magians, Mahsa Amini, Marxist-Islamists, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, monotheism, Muhammad Saladin Zaydan, Muhammad Salah al-Din Zaidan, Mujahadeen-e-Khalq, nuclear weapons, Palestine Liberation Organisation, PLO, Prophet Muhammad, Rashidun Caliphate, Rex Cinema fire, Saudi Arabia, Sayf al-Adel, Sayf al-Adl, Shah, Shah Cheragh, Shi’a Imams, Syria, Taliban, Teaching of Jacob, terrorism, Twelver Shi’ism, Zoroastrians on December 2, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

The Contents of Islamic State’s Weekly Newsletter ‘Al-Naba’ in August 2022

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 September 2022

Christian homes burned by the Islamic State in the Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo || Al-Naba 352, p. 5

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abdul Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu al-Zubayr al-Askari, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Anas al-Firansi, Abu Ayman al-Iraqi, Abu Karam al-Hadrami, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhajir, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Khlifawi, Abu Sulayman al-Libi, Abu Suleiman al-Libi, Abu Ubayda Abd al-Hakim, Abu Umar al-Khlifawi, Afghanistan, Africa, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Tai, Ahmad bin Sa’id al-Amudi, al-mufsidun, al-Naba, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Assad, Breaking the Walls campaign, Christians, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Distinguished Martyrs, Egypt, Fabien Clain, Green Zone, Hal Ataka Hadith al-Rafida, Haqqani Network, hijra, hikmah, IEDs, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, ISCAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, Jews, Jihadi John, jihadism, jizya, Kakwanguru prison break, Khaled al-Logari, Kurdistan Workers' Party, MIT, Mohammed Emwazi, Mozambique, Muqtada al-Sadr, National Intelligence Organisation, Nigeria, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, Pakistan, PKK, Rahimullah Haqqani, Ruhollah Khomeini, Saudi Arabia, SDF, secularism, Sinai Tribes Union, SNA, Somalia, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Syrian National Army, Taha Falaha, Taliban, Turkey, Wael al-Rawi, Wael al-Tai, Yemen on September 4, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Counters “Accusations” Against the Group and Explains its Purpose in Syria

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 3 September 2022

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This entry was posted in Abu Muhammad al-Adnani Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abu Ghraib prison break, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Al-Andalus, al-Furqan Media, al-Qaeda, Al-Salul, Alawis, assassination, Bashar al-Assad, bay'a, bida, BREAKING THE WALLS, Breaking the Walls campaign, caliphate, Christians, Dajjal, dawa, disinformation, dunya, fasad, Fursan al-Balagh Media, Hamid al-Zawi, Hamid Dawud Muhammad Khalil al-Zawi, Harvest of the Soldiers campaign, Heaven, Hell, idolaters, iman, insurgency, Iraq, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Islamism, Issa, Jahannam, Jerusalem, Jesus, Jews, jihad, Jinnah, monotheism, Moses, mujahideen, Musa, mushrikeen, Muslims, muwahideen, nationalism, Nusayris, Operation BREAKING THE WALLS, pagans, polytheists, Qatar, Rome, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, secularism, Soldiers' Harvest campaign, Sunnis, Syria, Taha Subhi Falaha, terrorism, They Shall By No Means Harm You But With a Slight Evil, They Will Not Harm You Except for Some Annoyance on September 3, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Africa Dominates Two Months of Islamic State Propaganda

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2022

Islamic State fighters from Wilayat Sinai in Egypt || Al-Naba 348, p. 5

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This entry was posted in Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Antisemitism, assassination, Balochistan, blasphemy, BREAKING THE WALLS, Caba Delgado, Christianity, Christians, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Hindus, Ibrahim al-Badri, IED, improvised explosive device, India, insurgency, Iran, Iraq, ISCAP, ISEAP, ISIS, ISKP, Islam, Islamic State, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State East Asia Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamism, Israel, ISWAP, Jews, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Maher al-Aqal, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, North-West Frontier Province, paganism, Pakistan, PKK, prison breaks, prisons, Revenge for the Two Shaykhs, Revenge for the Two Sheikhs, Saudi Arabia, SDF, sectarianism, Sikhs, Somalia, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, terrorism, The Philippines, Turkey, Yemen on August 31, 2022 by KyleWOrton.

Reviewing the Mystery of Jihadi Ideologue Abdullah Azzam’s Assassination Three Decades Later

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 August 2022

Abdullah Azzam [image source]

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This entry was posted in Afghanistan, History, Jihadi Biographies and tagged Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Abdullah Azzam, Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Qatada al-Filistini, Afghan Arabs, Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, al-Hazimiyya, Al-Jihad Magazine, al-Maktab al-Khadamat, al-Qaeda, al-Sahwa al-Islamiyya, America, Arab-Afghans, Armed Islamic Group, assassination, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Communism, Edmund McWilliams, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, EIJ, espionage, Farkhar massacre, George H.W. Bush, GIA, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, HAMAS, Hazimis, Hezbollah al-Hijaz, historiography, Hizb-i-Islami, Hizballah al-Hijaz, ideology, Inter-Services Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Awakening, Islamic State, Israel, Issam al-Barqawi, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Jamal Khashoggi, Jamiat-i-Islami, jihad, Jihadi-Salafism, Jordan, KGB, KHAD, Mikhail Gorbachev, MOSSAD, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, mujahideen, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Hamid, Nasrullah Mansur, Omar Othman, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian Territories, Palestinians, Peshawar, PLO, Rashid Ahmad, Red Army, Sab al-Layl Mosque, Salafism, Saudi Arabia, Services Bureau, Soviet Union, spies, State Intelligence Agency, takfir, theology, Thomas Hegghammer, Umar Othman, Usama bin Laden, Wahhabism on August 11, 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.

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