The following are some of this week's reports from the MEMRI Jihad and Terrorism Threat Monitor (JTTM) Project, which translates and analyzes content from sources monitored around the clock, among them the most important jihadi websites and blogs. (To view these reports in full, you must be a paying member of the JTTM; for membership information, send an email to jttmsubs@memri.org with "Membership" in the subject line.)
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EXCLUSIVE: Elements In The Iran-Led Resistance Axis: 'Jordan Is A New Resistance Front'
On April 2, 2024, a senior official in the Iraqi Iran-backed Hizbullah Brigades announced that his organization was working to arm activists in Jordan, that is, to establish a militia to be subordinate to his organization and to Iran.
On April 4, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda Telegram bot posted the first issue of an Arabic-language magazine providing "instructions for the lone mujahid."
On April 3-4, 2024, the official media outlet of the Iran-based salafi-jihadi group Jaysh Al-'Adl, published several posts concerning a series of attacks claimed by the group against Iranian security forces in the south of Iran's Baluchestan region.
On April 7-8, 2024, the official media outlet of the Iran-based salafi-jihadi group Jaysh Al-'Adl published several posts, in Farsi, on Telegram and on its official website requesting donations in bitcoin and Tether (USDT) cryptocurrencies.
On April 7, 2024, the armed forces of the Yemeni Houthi Ansar Allah movement claimed responsibility for "five military operations during the past 72 hours" against British and Israeli ships in the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea; and against American military frigates in the Red Sea.
On April 10, 2024, the armed forces of the Yemeni Houthi Ansar Allah movement claimed responsibility for four missile and drone attacks earlier that day against two Israeli ships, one American civilian vessel, and one American warship in the Gulf of Aden.
On April 4, 2024, Mustafa Ayyash, director of the Hamas-linked "Gaza Now" news outlet shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) arguing the U.S. and UK sanctions imposed on him and his outlet were unfair.
On April 4, 2024, Hamas issued a statement calling on Palestinians, Muslims, and "all free people of the world" to participate in what it called a "Friday Of Rage For Palestine" on April 5, 2024.
Islamic Resistance In Iraq Claims Responsibility For Two Drone Attacks On Israel
On April 4, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, claimed responsibility for two attacks on Israel as part of its stated support for the people of Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.
On April 6 and 7, 2024, the Iran-backed Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, claimed responsibility for four attacks within four days – three of which they alleged were carried out by drones and one of which they didn't provide further information about – on targets on Israeli territory.
On April 7, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, published a statement claiming a same-day drone attack against the Yarden military base in Israel's Golan Heights.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, continues to issue claims of attacks against Israeli targets.
On March 26, 2024, several Syrian opposition news outlets reported multiple U.S. airstrikes on sites of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the Deir Al-Zour governorate of eastern Syria, near the Iraqi border.
On April 3, 2024, a group of mujahideen from the Caucasus affiliated with Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) released a nine-and-a-half-minute video in Russian titled "Echoes of the Battle of Badr."
On April 7, 2024, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), which is affiliated with the Syrian opposition, reported that the Afghan Fatemiyoun Brigade had completed a month-long military training course in the western outskirts of Deir Al-Zour.
On April 7, 2024, the deirezzor24 website, a Syrian opposition outlet which covers the Deir Al-Zour region in northeastern Syria, published a report claiming that Russian military officials met with Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as with their Syrian counterparts in the Deir Al-Zour's military airfield, in northeastern Syria.
On April 8 and 9, 2024, two Syrian pro-opposition media outlets reported that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was establishing a new militia to be called Jaysh Al-'Asha'er (Army of the Tribes), in the city of Al-Bukamal in northeastern Syria.
On April 6, 2024, sources within the Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatuses which govern territory in the West Bank, reported that they had caught an Islamic State (ISIS) cell in the Jenin area, in the northern West Bank, that planned to perpetrate terrorist attacks against PA targets, including its security apparatuses.
Over the past few days, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet released three posters inciting lone-wolf attacks targeting stadiums in European cities.
In the final week of the holy month of Ramadan, Islamic State (ISIS) affiliates in Africa have continued their attacks on Christian civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Nigeria.
The editorial in issue 437 of Islamic State (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba', published on April 4, 2024, is titled "Urge and Remind One Another."
On April 4, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 437 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which included a report documenting clashes which occurred in Inekar Ouest, in Mali's Menaka region.
On April 9, 2024, the Al-Aza'im Media Foundation, which is affiliated with Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), released a poster threatening a drone attack on a football stadium in Spain.
On April 2, 2024, Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) conducted an attack on the Christian village of Mangodomu in the Beni Territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
In a Pashtu-language booklet, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) criticized the Afghan Taliban for issuing a statement that condemned the March 22, 2024 attack on a concert hall in Moscow, calling it a violation of all humanitarian standards.
A lead article in the latest issue of "Voice of Khurasan," an English-language monthly magazine published by Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), says that the March 22, 2024 attack in Moscow "illuminated" differences between believers, who rejoiced at the attack, and unbelievers, referencing the Afghan Taliban, condemning it.
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In a Pashtu-language booklet, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) accuses Afghan Taliban leader Mawlawi Hibbatullah Akhundzada of deceiving Taliban members and Afghans by claiming that he is implementing Islam and shari'a but failing to do so.
In a Pashtu-language book, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) sheds light on the 1992 destruction by extremist Hindus of the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the Indian town of Ayodhya.
A lead article in the latest issue of "Voice of Khurasan," an English-language monthly magazine published by Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), calls on Muslims to travel to Afghanistan to wage jihad there and publishes 10-point guidelines to follow in doing so.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate Al-Shabab Releases Second Video Showing Fighters Practicing Ramadan Rituals
On April 7, 2024, Al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) released a second video in its series "Ramadan Atmospheres in The Battlefields," through its media arm, Al-Kataib Media Production.
On April 5 and 8, 2024, two different pro-Al-Qaeda media outlets shared posters exhorting Muslims to wage jihad against Arab regimes they claimed are complicit in laying siege to Gaza and killing Palestinians there.
On April 8, 2024, an English-language Salafi-jihadi Telegram channel published a post bemoaning ideological disagreements within the jihadi movement, particularly the bitter rivalry between Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS), claiming these disputes have only "benefited the Jews and the crusaders.
On April 9, 2024, an umbrella organization comprised of several pro-Al-Qaeda media outlets, released the first issue of its new magazine, Al-Bunyan Al-Marsus (Solid Structure).
On April 9, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet published the first issue of a new magazine.
On April 4, 2024, Amjad Media Foundation, the media arm of the Syria-based jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), announced the death of the Syria-based Iraqi-born jihadi leader Maysar Bin 'Ali Al-Juburi, aka Abu Mariyah Al-Qahtani.
On March 3, 2024, Afghanistan's Tolo News published a short video of Afghan Taliban's Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs, Mawlawi Mohammed Abdul Kabir, in which he praises the role of "jihadi madrassas," and promises to build similar schools all over the country.
On March 5, 2024, Tolo News of Afghanistan published a long interview with Qari Fasihuddin Fitrat, the chief of the General Staff of the Afghan Taliban's Armed Forces, while he and Defense Minister Mullah Yaqoob Mujahid were visiting the Defense Exhibition of Weapons (DEMDEX), in Doha, Qatar.
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In his annual message to the Muslim world issued ahead of Eid Al-Fitr, which in 2024 will take place on April 10, the leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada defended qisas (i.e., retaliatory punishments, an eye for an eye) and other shari'a-based criminal punishemnts including lashings and stoning.
On March 20, 2024, Afghan Taliban's state-owned RTA TV aired a Pashtu-language speech that Afghan Taliban Head of Administrative Affairs Sheikh-ul-Hadith Mawlawi Noor-ul-Haq Anwar gave during the opening ceremony of the new educational year in Afghanistan, which began on that day.
