"Baqiya wa Tatamadad" is an Arabic phrase meaning "remaining and expanding," which became the slogan of the Islamic State after the collapse of the territorial caliphate. ISIS supporters will often add the phrase as a hashtag or... Read more

"Media jihad" refers to an ISIS innovation in the Islamist terrorist sphere heavily emphasizing online media and appealing propaganda as a means of recruiting foreign fighters and spreading its message. To this end, ISIS recruiters often emphasize... Read more

Nutella and kittens was among ISIS's more inventive and disturbing media tactics. In 2015, the group paired calls to join the Islamic State with innocuous images that were popular on the internet, including pictures of kittens or... Read more

Crusaders is a term used by Islamists to refer to any Western presence in the Middle East, though it is most often used to refer to the U.S. In addition, anti-Muslim extremists in the United States often... Read more

Green birds references a hadith which states that the souls of martyrs ascend to heaven in the form of green birds. Islamist extremists online often use the term as a coded way of indicating that they intend... Read more

"Khaybar Khaybar ya yahud" is the first verse of an antisemitic chant which references a battle fought in 628 CE in the Khaybar Oasis, in the Hejaz province of modern-day Saudi Arabia. During this battle, the army... Read more