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

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