Road to the Caliphate: August 26-September 16, 2013

Primary Sources:

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “Messages from the Land of Epic Battles #4″

Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al ‘Adnānī al-Shāmī: “‘Peaceful’ Is Whose Religion?”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #6″

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “Messages from the Land of Epic Battles #5″

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #7″

Abū al-Ḥasan al-‘Azdī: “Obligations to Join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: Objections and Replies”

al-Shām Foundation: “From Somalia the Proud to the Powerful Islamic State”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #9″

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #10″

The Islamic State Institute for Sharia Sciences in the city of Atarib

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s Shari’a committee headquarters in al-Dana, rural Idlib

Another impressive photo of Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s headquarter in Raqqa

The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham confiscating and destroying alcohol in al-Raqqa

ISIS protests in Jarablus against the “Hotel Revolutionaries”

God’s law or human law? One of the banners of the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham

Sharia Court in Aleppo Province

Cubs of the young Emirate of Jarabulus

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham ad in Raqqa- ‘Fight them until no more fitna & religion is God’s alone’

Syria: Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham da’wah road ad in town of Sheikh Isa, rural Aleppo

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s provision of food aid in Atarib

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham convoy with food aid on the move (rural Aleppo)

Syria: Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham checkpoint in the northern border stronghold of Jarabulus

Dates are distributed to the needy in the Atarib region

Police

Photo of the pro-Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham protest in Mashhad, Aleppo

Pictures from Ghouta, Damascus, in the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham

Secondary Sources:

Among Syria’s Islamist Fighters / The New Yorker

Islamists Up Close: A Soldier of ISIS  | Syria News

Syria: nearly half rebel fighters are jihadists or hardline Islamists, says IHS Jane’s report – Telegraph

Islamic State Of Iraq And Syria (ISIS) Opens Elementary Schools In Aleppo

Syrian rebels face another foe: Al Qaeda-linked militants – LA Times

One Photographer’s Witness to a Brutal Execution in Syria

Dining with Al Qaeda – The Daily Beast

The end of the rebel alliance? – Al Jazeera English

Islamic groups ban smoking and Tobacco trading | ZAMAN ALWSL

The State of a Secular Rebel Fighting Force | Syria News

Islamist rebels execute Alawite men in Raqqa | THE DAILY STAR

Road to the Caliphate: August 3-August 25, 2013

Primary Sources:

Abū Hamām Bakr Bin ‘Abd al- ‘Azīz al-‘Atharī — “Extend Our Hands in Bay’at to al-Baghdādī”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “On the Battle of the “Last Ten Days”: Liberating the Mannagh Airbase in the State of Aleppo”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #1 and #2”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “On the Operations ‘Cleansing of the Coast’ in the State of al-Lādhakīyyah (Latakiya)”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Window Upon the Land of Epic Battles #3, #4, and #5”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “Messages from the Land of Epic Battles”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “Messages from the Land of Epic Battles #2”

The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham – al-Raqqah – Serving breakfast in a number of mosques in the city of Tabqa

al-Bab: The Islamic State held a public feast by order of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, rejoicing in the release of the Iraqi prisoners

The Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham are distributing free food “for the needy” in Rif Aleppo for Eid

Setting up a prayer tent in the city of Adana on the occasion of Eid

Setting up a prayer tent in the town of Ma’arat Dibsi on the occasion of Eid

A statement regarding the PKK militia from the battalions fighting in Aleppo

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s outreach to children in Aleppo

Photos of children who received presents from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham this Eid

An Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham billboard from al-Raqqah- ‘My hijab is my glory’

Gas distribution at nominal prices in all regions of Dayr al-Zur

The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham implemented the hadd on two of the shabiha

Pro-Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham parade in Aleppo

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham’s latest dawa outreach in an Aleppo suburb

What is the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham – Eastern al-Ghutah District

Secondary Sources:

As Islamist rebels rise in Syria, liberal activists take a step back SYRIA NEWS | Zaman Alwsl

Free Syrian Army commander celebrates victory with al Qaeda affiliate – Threat Matrix

Islamist militants drive Free Syrian Army out of al-Raqqah

Syria: Islamist infighting sweeps Raqqa | Asharq al-Awsat

Syria-based al Qaeda group issues threat to Western aid workers – CBS News

In Raqqa, Islamist Rebels Form a New Regime | Syria Deeply

Road to the Caliphate: July 24-August 2, 2013

Primary Sources:

Press Coverage of One of the Da’wah Tents in the State of Aleppo #2

New sharia institute established by Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in Idlib town of al-Dana

The Islamic State, Jabhat al-Nusrah, Ahrar al-Sham, the Unified Military Revolutionary Council, and the Sharia Board in the city of al-Bab and its countryside agree to establish a general mobilization office, a joint operations room, and a financial fund to support the general mobilization

Statement from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant on the events of Tal Abyad in the north of Raqqa Governorate

A number of battalions fighting in Syria have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham

Syria- placard from a recent ISIS Da’wah meeting in Manbij- ‘Yes to the ruling of Shari’a in Manbij’

Photo of a recent Da’wah meeting by Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham in the town of Manbij

Dawa billboard in al-Raqqah

Secondary Sources:

Al-Qaeda Militants Travel To Syria Via Turkey – Al-Monitor

Golani vs. Baghdadi: Al-Qaeda’s Internal War in Syria | Al Akhbar English

الرقة..”دولة العراق والشام الإسلامية” تترك الجبهات وتتوجه إلى الداخل أخبار سورية زمان الوصل