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How Much Responsibility Does the Syrian State Have for the Alawi Massacres?

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 July 2025

This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Ahd al-Hamawi, Abu Jaber al-Khattabi, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmed Qurfays, Ahrar al-Sham, Al-Klazyia, al-Qaeda, Alawi coast, Alawis, Alawites, Arza, Baniyas, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechens, crimes against humanity, Donald Trump, Efrin, Emmanuel Macron, European Union, felool, felul, foreign fighters, fulul, General Security Service, GSS, Hama, Hamza Division, Hassan Abd al-Ghani, Hassan Abdel Ghani, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Homs, Houla Massacre, HTS, human rights, ISIS, Islamic State, Islamism, Islamists, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jableh, Jaysh al-Ahrar, Jaysh al-Islam, Jaysh al-Izza, jihadism, jihadists, Khattab, Kurds, Latakia, looting, Ministry of Defence, Othman Brigade, pogroms, sectarianism, SNA, SNHR, Sonobar, Sultan Sulayman Shah Brigade, Sultan Suleiman Shah Brigade, Sunnis, Syria, Syrian National Army, Syrian Network for Human Rights, Tartus, TIP, Turkistan Islamic Party, Unit 400, United Nations, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, war crimes on July 17, 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.

Islamic State Changes Course in Dealing With the Tribes, Holds Its Ground Against Democracy

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 April 2025

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This entry was posted in Abu Umar al-Baghdadi Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Karim al-Samarra’i, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Righal, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Accord Front, Adnan al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Janabi, Al-Furqan Media Foundation, Awakening, Ba’athism, Ba’thism, Christianity, Christians, democracy, Dhafir al-Ani, elections, Fallujah, Hamid al-Zawi, ideology, Imam Husayn, Iran, Iraq, Iraqiya, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq, jihadism, Kurds, Mahmoud al-Mashadani, Mahmud al-Mashadani, Muhammad al-Dayni, Muslim Brotherhood, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuri al-Maliki, Prophet Muhammad, Qur’an, Rafi al-Issawi, Sahwa, Salafism, Salam al-Zuba’i, sectarianism, Shi’a, Sunnis, Tariq al-Hashemi, Tariq al-Hashimi, Tawafuq, terrorism, tribes on April 4, 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.

The Alawi Massacres in Syria: A Blip or a Rubicon?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 17 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, barrel bombs, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Christianity, Christians, Coastal Shield Forces, economy, ethnic cleansing, European Union, foreign fighters, General Security Service, Ghaith Dala, Gnosticism, GSS), Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hama massacre, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Imam Ali, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jableh, jihadism, jihadists, Latakia, Military Council to Free Syria, Miqdad Fatiha, Musa al-Sadr, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslims, Neoplatonism, Nusayris, Ottoman Empire, Ottomans, Prophet Muhammad, Republican Guards, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, Shi’a, SNA, Sunnis, Syria, Syrian National Army, taqiya, Tartous, Tartus, theology, Trinity, Turkey, United States, war crimes on March 17, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Visiting Post-Revolutionary Syria

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 March 2025

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This entry was posted in Foreign Travel, Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Al-Hamidiyah Souq, al-Qaeda, Alawis, Alawites, Aleppo, Amin Dakaev, Bahur Chamntoub, Bakhour Chamntoub, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Chechnya, Christianity, Christians, coronavirus, COVID-19, Damascus, Druze, economy, Farah al-Atassi, foreign fighters, Fourth Division, Hamidiya Souq, Harun, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hezbollah, Hizballah, HTS, Idlib, Ignatius Aphrem II, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jews, jihadism, jihadists, Kurds, Maher al-Assad, National Dialogue Conference, Nusayris, Patriarch of Antioch, refugees, Russia, Sanctions, sectarianism, shari’a, SNA, Syria, Syriac Orthodox Christianity, Syrian National Army, Tacitus, Turkey, Umayyad Mosque, Umayyad Square on March 12, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Salem Witch Trials, Part Two: Hysteria and Persecution

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged A Candle in the Dark, A Discourse of the Damned Art of Witchcraft, Abigail Faulkner, Abigail Hobbs, Abigail Williams, Alice Parker, Andover, Ann Foster, Ann Pudeator, Ann Putnam Jr., Antichrist, Barbados, Bartholomew Gedney, Betty Parris, Bridget Bishop, Britain, capitulum Episcopi, Caribbean, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Christian humanism, Christian humanists, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, colonies, Connecticut, Constantine the Great, Cotton Mather, Court of Oyer and Terminer, Daemonologie, Devil, Dorcas Hoar, Dorothy Good, Early Church, Elizabeth How, Elizabeth Hubbard, Elizabeth Procter, England, English Civil Wars, George Burroughs, George Corwin, Giles Cory, Glorious Revolution, Gloucester, Gregorian Reforms, Hammer of the Witches, Heinrich Kramer, hysteria, Increase Mather, James II, John Alden, John Barton, John Emerson, John Gaule, John Indian, John Procter, Jonathan Corwin, judges, Latin Christendom, Malleus Maleficarum, Margaret Scott, Martha Carrier, Martha Cory, Martha Tyler, Mary Bradbury, Mary Esty, Mary Lacey Jr., Mary Lacey Sr., Mary Parker, Mary Sibley, Mary Tyler, Mary Warren, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Matthew Hopkins, Mercy Good, millenarianism, Nathaniel Saltonstall, New England, Nicholas Noyes, Oliver Cromwell, Papal Bull, Papal Revolution, Parliament, Privy Council, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Puritanism, Puritans, Rebecca Eames, Rebecca Nurse, Reformation, religious wars, Roger Toothaker, Roman Catholic Church, Royalists, Salem, Salem Girls, Salisbury, Samuel Parris, Samuel Pepys, Samuel Sewall, Samuel Wardwell, Samuel Willard, Sarah Cloyce, Sarah Good, Sarah Osburn, Sarah Wildes, Satan, sectarianism, Select Cases of Conscience touching Witches and Witchcrafts, slaves, spectral evidence, Stamford, sugar islands, Summis desiderantes affectibus, Susannah Martin, theology, Thomas Ady, Thomas Brattle, Thomas Danforth, Thomas Fiske, Thomas Newton, Thomas Putnam, Tituba, touch test, Wars of Religion, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whore of Babylon, William Milborne, William Perkins, William Phips, William Stoughton, Wilmot Redd, witch craze, witch panic, witchcraft, witches, Witchfinder General on January 29, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Salem Witch Trials, Part One: Massachusetts on the Eve of the Panic

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 25 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Act of Uniformity, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, Anabaptism, Antichrist, Archbishop William Laud, assassinations, Austria, Aztecs, Baptists, Bible, Boston, Brazil, cannibalism, Catholicism, Charles I, Charles II, Charles V, Chosen People, Christianity, Christians, Church of England, Commonwealth, Declaration of Indulgence, Devil, Diet of Worms, Dutch Republic, Edmund Andros, Edward Whalley, Elizabeth I, English Civil Wars, Fifth Monarchists, Fifth Monarchy Men, Florida, Francis Higginson, germ theory, Glorious Revolution, Good Old Cause, Great Migration, Habsburgs, Henry Bouquet, High Church, Holy Ghost, Holy Roman Empire, Holy Spirit, Hugh Peter, Huguenots, human sacrifice, Incas, Increase Mather, Intelligence, Interregnum, Ireland, Israel, James I, James II, Jamestown, Jean Ribault at Charlesfort, Jeffery Amherst, Jesus, Johann Cochlaeus, John Endecott, John Winthrop, King James Bible, King Philip, King Philip’s War, Leif Erikson, liberalism, Lost Colony, Louis XIV, Mammon, Marcus Antonius Plencic, Martin Luther, Mary I, Mary II, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Mayflower, Metacom, Naumkeag, Navigation Acts, Netherlands, New World, Newfoundland, Nine Years’ War, Nonconformism, Nonconformists, Norsemen, Nova Scotia, Oliver Cromwell, paganism, pagans, Personal Rule, Philip II, Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony, Pope, popery, Popish Plot, pox blanket, Protectorate, Protestant Reformation, Protestantism, Protestants, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Puritans, Quakers, Raid on the Medway, Regicides, religious wars, René Goulaine de Laudonnière, Rhode Island, Roanoke Island, Roger Williams, Roman Catholic Church, Royal Charter, Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, Salem, Salem witch trials, Samuel Parris, Satan, Secret Treaty of Dover, sectarianism, Sir George Downing, Sir Henry Vane, Sir William Phips, smallpox blanket, sola scriptura, Spain, Spanish Armada, Sun King, Test Act, The Book of Common Prayer, Thirty Years’ War, Thomas Venner, Titus Oates, Vikings, Virgin Mary, Wars of the Three Kingdoms, Whigs, William Goffe, William III, William of Orange, William Trent, Williamite War, witch panic, witchcraft, witches on January 25, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Profiles its “Hidden Figures”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 January 2025

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This entry was posted in History, Jihadi Biographies, Jihadi Output and tagged Abd al-Aziz ibn Abdallah al-Baz, Abd al-Munim al-Badawi, Abd al-Nasser al-Qardash, Abdul Munim al-Badawi, Abdullah Azzam, Abdullah bin Najm al-Hilali, Abdullah Qardash, Abdulrahman al-Qaduli, Abdulrahman Ibn Mustafa al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Abdullah Rashid al-Baghdadi, Abu Abdulrahman al-Dulaymi, Abu Ahmad al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Shami, Abu al-Ghadiya al-Suri, Abu al-Hareth, Abu al-Harith, Abu al-Harith al-Iraqi, Abu al-Mughira al-Qahtani, Abu al-Nasr al-Libi, Abu al-Nasser al-Libi, Abu Ala al-Afri, Abu Ala al-Qurayshi, Abu Alaa al-Afri, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Ali al-Qurdash al-Turkmani, Abu Anas al-Shami, Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Abu Azzam al-Hilali al-Adnani, Abu Azzam al-Iraqi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, Abu Ghraib, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Ibrahim al-Zaydi, Abu Iman, Abu Ishaq al-Askari, Abu Jasim al-Iraqi, Abu Khattab al-Falluji, Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muhammad al-Ghassani, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Abu Muhammad al-Lubnani, Abu Muhannad al-Suwaydawi, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, Abu Mutaz al-Qurayshi, Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Abu Nabil al-Zubaydi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Shahd al-Mashadani, Abu Sulayman al-Nasser, Abu Talha al-Ansari, Abu Talha al-Hamdani al-Adnani, Abu Talha al-Mawsuli, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Qurdash, Abu Umar al-Shihawi al-Dulaymi, Adnan al-Bilawi, Adnan al-Suwaydawi, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Al-Faqih Abu Khattab al-Dulaymi, Al-Harari, Al-Haras al-Jamhuri al-Khas, Al-Jazeera Camp, al-Majlis Shura al-Mujahideen, Al-Nasser Lideen Allah, Al-Qa’qa ibn Amr, al-salaf al-salih, Al-Salul, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, Ansar al-Islam, Arab Empire, Army of Hardship, Army of Truth, Awwad al-Zuba’i, Awwad al-Zuba’i al-Qahtani, Baath Party, Baathism, Ba’th Party, Ba’thism, Badran Turki Hishan al-Mazidi, Baghuz, Battle of Fallujah, Battle of Tal Afar, Caliphate Army, Coptic Christians, Copts, Dar Islami, Delegated Committee, Du’a Khalil Aswad, extremism, Fadel al-Hiyali, faith campaign, Faiz al-Athari, Fallujah, Grand Mufti, Group of Monotheism and Salafism, Haji Abdullah al-Afri Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Haji Bakr, Haji Dawood, Haji Dawud, Haji Iman, Haji Mutaz, Hamid al-Ani, Hamid al-Muhammadi, Hamid al-Salafi, Hamid al-Zawa, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hilal al-Ameri, Hilf al-Mutayibeen, HTS, Hudayfa al-Batawi, Ibrahim al-Badri, ideology, IIP, Iran, Iraq, Iraq al-Ameri, Iraqi Islamic Party, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, jahiliyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Salafiyya, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jaysh al-Siddiq, Jaysh al-Usra, Jaysh Dabiq, Jaysh Khilafa, jihadism, jihadists, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Khalidiya Island, Kharijites, Khattab al-Ameri, Khattab al-Faysal, khawarij, Kurdistan, Libya, Manaf al-Rawi, Maysar al-Jaburi, Maysar Ali Musa Abdullah al-Jaburi, monotheism, Muayyad al-Salih, Muayyad Talih, muhajireen, Muhammad al-Issawi, Muhammad Khalaf Shakar, Muharib al-Jaburi al-Qahtani, mujahideen, Mujahideen Shura Council, Mullah Krekar, Muslim Brotherhood, Mustafa Ramadan Darwish, Najmadin Faraj Ahmad, Numan al-Zaydi, Omar Hadid, Omar Yousef Juma, Omar Yusuf Juma, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, pious predecessors, Prophet Muhammad, RAND Corporation, Rawa Camp, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Salafis, Salafism, Samir al-Khlifawi, Saudi Arabia, sectarianism, Shaker al-Badri, shari’a, Shi’ism, Subhi al-Badri, Sulayman Khalid Darwish, Syria, Taha Abd al-Raheem Abdallah Bakr al-Ghassani, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tanzim al-Qaeda, terrorism, Thamir al-Dulaymi, Umar al-Assafi, Umar bin Hadid al-Dulaymi, Umar Hadid, Umar Yusef al-Juma, Umar Yusef Juma, Umar Yusef Jum’a, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Wahhabi, Wahhabism, Wissam al-Zubaydi, Yasin Qardash, Yazidis on January 11, 2025 by KyleWOrton.

Should Syria’s New Rulers Be on the Terrorism List?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 11 December 2024

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This entry was posted in Syria and tagged Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, Ahmad al-Shara, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Alawis, Alawites, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Britain, Christians, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, HTS, Jabhat al-Nusra, jihadism, jihadists, John Sawers, MI5, MI6, Qatar, religious minorities, Secret Intelligence Service, sectarianism, Security Service, SIS, Syria, terrorism, Turkey on December 11, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

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