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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On March 19, 2024, several agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited a woman at her home.
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On April 1, 2024, a building adjacent to the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital of Damascus was attacked.
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On March 27, 2024, on its official Telegram channel, the Hamas movement shared the main points made by its leader abroad, Khaled Mashal, in a prerecorded speech that was screened during an event for Palestinian women held in Jordan.
Supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) have alleged that a supporter was killed on March 25 while clashing with Israeli forces near the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza city.
In mid-March 2024, an Afghan jihadi fighter, identified as Yasir, aka Abu Yusuf Al-Afghani, was killed fighting Israel in Gaza.
Issue 436 of Islamic State (ISIS) weekly magazine Al-Naba', released on March 28, 2024, contains extensive coverage of the March 22 attack at the Crocus City music hall in the Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk, for which ISIS claimed responsibility, including newly disclosed details.
On March 28, 2024, Al-Furqan, the media outlet of the Islamic State (ISIS) Central Command, released an audio address by the group's spokesman, Abu Ḥudhayfah Al-Ansari, titled "By Allah, This Matter Will Be Completed," marking the 10-year anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic State's "Caliphate" in Iraq and Syria.
On March 27, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Palestinian news network, "Gaza Now," citing its involvement in fundraising for Hamas in the wake of the October 7 attack by Hamas against Israel.
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On April 1, 2024, Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) launched the second conference dedicated to "Palestine, the Central Cause of the [Islamic] Nation" in the capital, Sanaa.
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On March 29, 2024, the Saba News Agency's Center for Research and Information, a Houthi-controlled broadcaster, published a research paper identifying American military bases in 14 countries around Yemen, including in the Middle East and Africa.
On March 29, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operation group of Iraqi militias, published a statement claiming a same-day drone attack against a "military target" in Israel's Golan Heights.
Iran-Backed Islamic Resistance In Iraq Claims Drone Attack Against Airbase In Central Israel
On April 2, 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 Tel Nof airbase in central Israel.
On April 3, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, published a statement claiming a same-day drone attack on "the Zionist airport in Haifa" in northern Israel.
During the first week of April 2024, two new cyber groups associated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq opened channels on the Telegram messaging service and announced the launch of a campaign against the "Zionist criminals" with the declared goal of punishing them for their "brutal killing of innocent Palestinian children and women in Gaza."
On April 1, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) reported that Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, also known as Abu Mahdi, was killed in an airstrike that targeted a building adjacent to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus, Syria.
On March 21 and 26, 2024, two Syrian opposition websites – Eye of Euphrates and Deirezzor24 – published "exclusive" reports that the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the militias subordinate to it in Syria and Iraq had examined the possibility of using tunnels and even begun to excavate tunnels on the Syria-Iraq border, in the area of the city of Al-Bukamal, for the purpose of smuggling and storing weapons and to reduce the possibility of the shipments being attacked from the air.
In recent days, media groups supporting the Islamic State (ISIS) have released posters threatening and inciting attacks on sports stadiums in Western countries and Israel, making particular mention of arenas and sports teams in Germany.
Since the beginning of 2024, the Islamic State Syria Province has been escalating its military operations – ambushes, armed attacks and explosions – in areas under the control of the Syrian regime and under the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
Essay By Pro-Al-Qaeda Media Group Urges Muslims To Assassinate French President Macron
On March 30, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet published a nine-page essay in French, English, and Arabic versions.
On April 2, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet released an English translation of the fourth issue of its Wolves of Manhattan magazine.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate GSIM Claims Casualties In IED Attacks Against Armed Forces In Mali, Burkina Faso
On March 30, 2024, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), published a statement claiming that on March 29, a GSIM company carried out an IED attack against a military vehicle of the Malian army between Diabaly and Nampala in Mali's Segou region, destroying the vehicle and causing casualties. Two photos were attached, showing the remains of the vehicle.
On April 3, 2024, Al-Kata'ib, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) released a video according to a report published by Shahada News Agency, another official outlet affiliated with Al-Shabab.
On March 29, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet published the fourth issue of its Wolves of Manhattan magazine.
Al-Qaeda Somali Affiliate Al-Shabab Claims Deaths Of Six Kenyan Priests on Somalia-Kenya Border
On March 29, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media outlet of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), reported that Al-Shabab operatives had detonated an IED on several Kenyan priests who were engaged in "missionary activity" in the city of Dhobley in Somalia's Juba region on the border with Kenya. According to the claim of responsibility, six priests were killed and several others were wounded in the explosion.
On March 28, 2024, Jaysh Al-Muhajireen Wal-Ansar (JMA), a group of mujahideen from the Caucasus affiliated with Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), released an eight-minute video in Russian.
Following the March 18, 2024 Pakistani airstrikes in Paktika and Khost provinces of Afghanistan allegedly against the fighters of the Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a pro-Afghan Taliban website published a Pashtu-language article warning that it will be much "comfortable" for the Taliban martyrdom-seeking bombers to deal with Pakistan army and eliminate it altogether.
A leading Urdu-language Pakistani newspaper reported that Pakistani Taliban commander Yahya Hafiz Gul Bahadur is planning a terror operation against Pakistani security forces in retaliation for the March 18 airstrikes by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) in Afghanistan's Paktika and Khost provinces.
A Dari-language article recently warned that the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) is gathering strength in Afghanistan, that it is now beyond the control of the Islamic Emirate (the Afghan Taliban regime), and that some terror groups may join it.
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In a Pashtu-language video shared on social media, an Afghan Taliban fighter urges Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada and Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid to send 400,000 Taliban mujahideen to Gaza to fight Israel.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) has released a video showcasing extensive military training of its Special Istishhadi ("martyrdom-seeking") Force (SIF), including snipers, in a mountainous region somewhere along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
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On March 27, 2024, an Afghan Taliban account on X (formerly Twitter) posted a short video showing children holding weapons and speaking in Pashtu.
