Kyle Orton's Blog

Home
About
Media
Published

Tag Archives: Syria

The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Aaronic Benediction, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, archaeology, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Battle of Perire, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Canaan, Chaim Weizmann, Children of Israel, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Dead Sea Scrolls, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First Temple period, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Hebrew Bible, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, House of David, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Ketef Hinnom Scrolls, King David, King Hazael of Aram-Damascus, Kingdom of Judah, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Merneptah, Merneptah Stele, Mesha Stele, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moabite Stone, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Period of Judges, Pharoah, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Priestly Blessing, Protestantism, Raj, Rameses II, Rameses the Great, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Sea Peoples, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Tanakh, Tel Dan Stele, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Spokesman Marks Ten Years of the Caliphate

1 Reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 April 2024

Continue reading →

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.

The West Needs a Strategy to Counter Iran’s “Ring of Fire”

2 Replies

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 April 2024

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Iran, Israel and tagged Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Antisemitism, Artesh, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Ayn al-Asad Airbase, Badr Corps, Badr Organisation, Dawa Party, Donald Trump, French Revolution, Gaza, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Hadi al-Ameri, Hadi al-Amiri, HAMAS, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Houthis, Huthis, invasion of Iraq, Iran, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, Jamal al-Ibrahimi, Jews, Karbala raid, LAF, Lebanese Armed Forces, Lebanon, Mohammad Hadi Haji-Rahimi, Mohammad Reza Zahedi, Mohammed al-Sudani, Nevatim Airbase, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qassem Suleimani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Russian Revolutions, Sanctions, SCIRI, sectarianism, Shaaban Intifada, Shi’a jihadists, Shi’a militias, Shi’ite jihad, Special Groups, Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Syria, terrorism, Unit 3800, velayat-e faqih, wilayat al-faqih, Zionism on April 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Russia and tagged 1999 Moscow Apartment bombings, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Alexei Navalny, apartment bombings, Austria, Crocus City Hall, Germany, Iran, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, NATO, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tajiks, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey, Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Film Review: Raid on Entebbe (1977)

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 February 2024

Continue reading →

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.

Russia’s Hope Dies With Alexey Navalny

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 February 2024

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Russia and tagged Alexander Mishkin, Alexander Petrov, Alexei Navalny, Alexey Navalny, Amnesty International, Anatoliy Chepiga, Andrei Karlov, Anti-Corruption Foundation, assassination, autocracy, Barack Obama, Bashar al-Assad, Benigno Aquino, Beslan school siege, Charlie Rowley, CIA, Cold War, Communism, corruption, Crimea, Dawn Sturgess, democracy, Dmitri Medvedev, Donald Trump, Donbas, Dozhd, FBK, FSB, Georgia, Gospels, Grigory Yavlinsky, GRU, Harry Potter, honour, Igor Girkin, Igor Strelkov, Illegals, Institute of Forensic Science, Intelligence, Iran, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Jews, jihadism, Kirovles case, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, liberalism, Little Green Men, Luna Lovegood, Maksym Kuzminov, Maxim Ustinov, Mikhail Kasyanov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Mikhail Zygar, NAROD, National Russian Liberation Movement, nationalism, Nikita Isaev, Nikolai Patrushev, Novichok, Oleg Navalny, opposition, Orthodox Christianity, PARNAS, People’s Alliance, People’s Freedom Party, political protests, Progress Party, Ramzan Kadyrov, repression, Republican Party of Russia, Rick and Morty, Rick Sanchez, RT, Ruslan Boshirov, Ruslan Magomedragimov, Russia, Russia of the Future, Russia Today, Russian liberals, Russian March, Second Chechen War, September 11, Sergey Skripal, Shamil Basayev, Soviet Union, Spetsnaz, Syria, Timur Kuashev, tragedy, Ukraine, ultra-nationalism, Valery Boyarinev, Vasili Mitrokhin, Viktor Yanukovych, Viktor Zolotov, Vladimir Putin, Voldemort, War on Terror, Yabloko Party, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Yulia Navalnaya, Yulia Skripal on February 20, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The “Genocide” Case Against Israel at the International Court of Justice is a Political Sham

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 January 2024

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History, Israel and tagged active measures, Adolf Eichmann, African National Congress, ANC, Antisemitism, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, China, Communism, crimes against humanity, Cyril Ramaphosa, Dreyfus affair, Gaza, genocide, Genocide Convention, HAMAS, Holodomor, human rights, humanitarian aid, ICC, ICJ, International Court of Justice, International Criminal Court, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, IRGC, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Jeremy Corbyn, Jews, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khaled Qaddoumi, Kurt Waldheim, lawfare, Leonid Brezhnev, Moscow Trials, Muslims, Nazis, Nelson Mandela, Nuremberg Trials, October 7 Attack, October 7 Massacre, October 7 Pogrom, Omar al-Bashir, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PIJ, political warfare, Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Russia, Second World War, show trial, South Africa, Soviet Union, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine, Umar al-Bashir, United Nations, United States, UNRWA, Vladimir Putin, war crimes, World Court, Yemen on January 27, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Evidence is Now Clear: Iran Was Behind Every Aspect of the October 7 Pogrom in Israel

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 January 2024

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Iran, Israel and tagged Afghanistan, Al-Aqsa Mosque, al-Hashd al-Shabi, Alawis, Alawites, Ali Khamenei, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, Ansarallah, Artesh, Axis of Resistance, Barack Obama, Basel Mahadi, Bashar al-Asad, Bashar al-Assad, Benjamin Netanyahu, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Cold War, Communism, Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Esmail Qaani, Ezzatollah Zarghami, Five Eyes, Gaza, Gaza War, Ghazi Hamad, Gholam Ali Rashid, HAMAS, Hassan Hoballah, Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Houthis, Intelligence, Iran, Iranian Revolution, IRGC, Islamic Resistance Movement, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Islamism, Ismail Haniyeh, Ismailism, Israel, Joe Biden, Joint Operations Chamber, Khaled Mashal, Khaled Meshal, Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, Liwa Fatemiyoun, Liwa Fatemiyun, Liwa Zainebiyoun, Liwa Zaynabiyun, missiles, Mohsen Rafighdoost, Muslim Brotherhood, National Defence Forces, NDF, October 7 Pogrom, Osama Hamdan, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Palestinians, PFLP, PIJ, Popular Committees, Qassem Soleimani, Qassem Sulaymani, Qods Force, Quds Force, Ramazan Sharif, Resistance Axis, Saleh al-Aruri, Shabiha, Shi'a militias, Shi’a jihadism, Soviet Union, Syria, terrorism, Yemen, Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ziyad al-Nakhala on January 24, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The Strikes in Yemen Avoid the Real Issue: Iran

1 Reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 12 January 2024

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in Iran, Yemen and tagged America, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Britain, CENTCOM, Donald Trump, HAMAS, Harakat Hizballah al-Nujaba, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hodeida, Houthis, Hudayda, Huthis, Iran, Iraq, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamism, jihadism, Joe Biden, misinformation, NATO, Operation DECISIVE STORM, Operation PROSPERITY GUARDIAN, Rishi Sunak, Saudi Arabia, Shi'a militias, Stockholm Agreement, Syria, totalitarianism, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, Yemen on January 12, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

Leave a reply

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

Continue reading →

This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Post navigation

← Older posts

Newer posts →

Search for:

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets

	KyleWOrton on Who Killed Kennedy?
	larryschnapf on Who Killed Kennedy?
	pre-Boomer Marine br… on HAMAS Always Planned 7 October…
	pre-Boomer Marine br… on Remembering 9/11 Twenty-Five Y…
	pre-Boomer Marine br… on Palestinians and the Cinema Re…