Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
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Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi writes about the terrorist activities happening in and around Syria and across the world.
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
6d ago
By now, it is well-known that Iraq's Hashd Sha'abi (Popular Mobilisation Forces) are principally organised into various brigades that have ordinal numbers and are officially affiliated with the Hashd Sha'abi Commission. In addition to these brigades ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
1w ago
As part of its strikes in retaliation for Iran's strikes that were in turn retaliation for the bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Israel conducted an attack on Syrian territory: specifically the Izraa area in Deraa province in southern Syria ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
1w ago
While following the Islamic State's daily claims of operations can be useful in giving an overview of the group's activities on weekly, monthly and annual bases, there are cases where the group's affiliates have little to say on a daily basis about their ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
1w ago
I am sure many of my readers were up late last night live-tracking the strikes by Iran and its 'axis of resistance' against Israel in retaliation for the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus. The strikes themselves were bigger in scale ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
1w ago
In queries I have received over the years, I have often been asked if an Islamic State attack or set of attacks over a short-time span in Iraq and/or Syria constituted a 'resurgence' for the group. In general, I do not believe that this sort of framing ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
2w ago
Recently, the Daily Wire revealed that an internal newsletter from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence featured an article arguing for "changing terminology related to counterterrorism," because "certain phrases to identify international ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
2w ago
This year, 5 April was the world "al-Quds Day" ("Jerusalem Day"): an event organised by Iran in the name of supporting the Palestinian cause. Armed factions across the region that are backed by Iran are known to put on displays and events for al-Quds Day ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
3w ago
The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), an Uyghur Islamic group that has a Central Asia-based central leadership as well as a Syria branch, has issued a new statement addressed to the people of East Turkestan (the Xinjiang region in western China where the ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
3w ago
The insurgent faction Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham, which dominates the areas of northwest Syria outside of Syrian government control, has presently been rocked by the assassination of Abu Mariya al-Qahtani, an Iraq-born leader of the organisation who had been ..read more
Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi Blog
3w ago
Recently, Israel has carried out airstrikes on a wide-scale across Syrian government territory, hitting targets of both Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Hezbollah. The most prominent of these strikes came yesterday with the hit on the ..read more