Road to the Caliphate: April 1-7

Primary Sources:

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “A Man of the Believers: Elegy for the Commander Abū Usāmah al-Maghribī Who Was Killed By the Treachery Front”

Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al ‘Adnānī al-Shāmī: “He Will Surely Establish For Them [Therein] Their Religion Which He Has Preferred For Them”

Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shām: “But Who Is Better Than God In Judgement”

Nusra jurist: Al-Adnani’s speeches are dead on arrival; nobody cares. When I ask anyone if he listened, he says no

Nusra commander: “[Al-Adnani] says, ‘Anyone who considers about going to war with us better think hard about it!’ “Jabhat al-Nusra expelled you from Deir al-Zour in six hours.”

Tribesmen in Homs desert area pledging allegiance to ISIS

Times for call to prayer for this month in Raqqa province

Female School for the Memorization of the Quran in Raqqah, Syria

A preaching tent in al Tabni, Raqqa State

Raqqa Province, the preaching convoy

Secondary Sources:

A Late-Night Phone Call Between One Of Syria’s Top Extremists And His Sworn Enemy