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The Islamic State’s Global Terrorism Campaign and the Bondi Hanukkah Massacre
The main editorial of Al-Naba 526
 • Kyle Orton
Trump, Nigeria, and the Islamic State
Can a domestic political gambit become a security policy?
 • Kyle Orton
Jews Pay the Price for Australia’s Failures to Adequately Confront Islamism and Antisemitism
The Hanukkah Massacre on Bondi Beach was a long time coming.
 • Kyle Orton
The Soviet Campaign Against Pinochet’s Chile
Moscow’s propaganda networks and global terrorism apparatus worked right down to the end.
 • Kyle Orton
The Downfall of Salvador Allende
Fragments from a Cold War life
 • Kyle Orton
The Russian Terrorist-Revolutionary Movement, 1866 – 1876: Nihilism, “The People”, and Defining Terrorism’s Purpose
Sergey Nechayev, the “Going to the People” Experiment, and Pyotr Tkachov
 • Kyle Orton
The Most Infamous Russian Revolutionary Manifesto of the Nineteenth Century
“The Revolutionary Catechism”, by Sergey Nechayev
 • Kyle Orton
Why There is No Peace Between Israel and the Palestinians
A Telling Example From the Oslo Process
 • Kyle Orton
Weighing the Hope and Uncertainty over Ahmad al-Shara
Taking account of Al-Shara’s past while making policy for Syria’s future
 • Kyle Orton
Islamic State Wants to Use Libya as a Launchpad for Terrorism Against Europe
Editorial in Al-Naba 512
 • Kyle Orton
Islamic State Denounces Peace in Gaza as a Nationalist Delusion
Plus Al-Naba’s Other Coverage of Israel and Gaza This Year
 • Kyle Orton
What Has the Islamic State Been Up To?
Al-Naba 498 to 517: June to October 2025
 • Kyle Orton
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