Update: 5/4/2026

Travel

I will be traveling May 6-23. The fifth part of Adnan Absi’s Iraq memoir will be posted this Wednesday. The sixth and final part will be posted next week, then content will pause until my return. When I’m back, I will post a recent history of prewar Iraqi jihadism, written by Ammar Essam, then I will begin posting Adnan’s West Africa memoir. I am also preparing a lengthy piece about Jund Ansar Allah, the old Salafist Jihadist group in Gaza that declared an “Islamic Emirate” in Rafah and fought Hamas at Ibn Taymiyya Mosque.