By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 December 2022
Tag Archives: Yemen
The World Cup in Qatar and “Personal Freedom” Make the Islamic State Very Angry
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 December 2022
The Third Speech of Islamic State Spokesman Abu Umar al-Muhajir
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 September 2022
The Contents of Islamic State’s Weekly Newsletter ‘Al-Naba’ in August 2022
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 September 2022
Africa Dominates Two Months of Islamic State Propaganda
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 August 2022
Saddam Relative Arrested in Lebanon, Accused of Islamic State Crimes
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 24 August 2022
United Nations Report Finds Al-Qaeda and Islamic State Reduced, But Reviving
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 30 July 2022
The Fall of Afghanistan and Western Foreign Fighters
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 February 2022
Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, fell to jihadists on 15 August 2021, and this has emboldened the jihadist movement across the world, providing it with a morale boost and a model, as well as renewing the terrorist safe haven that incubated 9/11. Continue reading
Spywar and Strategy: The Israel-Iran Contest in the Middle East
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 June 2021
The May 2021 round of fighting in Gaza brought with it the upending of the unspoken understanding between Israel and Hamas and a level of intercommunal violence within Israel that has not been seen in quite some time. The scale of the rocket attacks on the Jewish state must also be counted among the unusual elements of this latest flare-up, with Iran clearly identifiable as the enabling state behind Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the two primary factions behind these attacks. Continue reading
Gaza is Just One Front in Iran’s Regional War
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 27 May 2021
Naim Qassem, the deputy secretary-general of Hizballah, the Lebanese division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), gave an interesting interview to Hizballah’s Al-Nour radio station on 22 May, explaining IRGC/Hizballah’s vision for what it had achieved with the recent war in Gaza. Qassem added to a large body of evidence about Iran’s extensive role in the war, a lot of it supplied directly by the combatant parties themselves. Not only did the clerical regime in Iran supply the material basis for the Islamists’ war against Israel this month; they provided much of the ideological framework, too. Continue reading