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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Iran's top general pledged to avenge the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a letter to his successor.
On August 12, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah Executive Council Deputy Chairman Sheikh Ali Damoush delivered a speech at a Hizbullah ceremony held to eulogize fighters killed in Israeli attacks.
EXCLUSIVE: Pro-ISIS Outlet Celebrates 'Wolves Of The Islamic State' Who Caused Cancellation Of Taylor Swift Concerts In Austria, Shames Jihadi Rivals For Failing To Inspire Attacks
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On August 7, 2024, news reports said that American singer-songwriter Taylor Swift cancelled her three concerts that were scheduled to take place in Vienna, Austria on August 8-11, 2024.
On August 14, 2024, the sixth issue of a pro-Al-Qaeda magazine, "And Incite The Believers," was released on an Al-Qaeda-operated server.
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On August 8, 2024, pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlets published videos and posters inciting attacks against Christians and encouraging arson attacks in the West to avenge "fallen brothers" killed in anti-ISIS military campaigns in Syria and Iraq.
On August 12, 2024, the Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee (IRCC), an umbrella group comprising several Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued a brief statement threatening to resume unrestricted attacks against U.S. forces if the U.S. again strikes in Iraq or uses the country's airspace to attack Iran.
On August 14, 2024, Ali Al-Asadi, the chairman of the political council of the Iran-backed Al-Nujaba Movement militia, gave an approximately 50-minute interview to the Iraqi Alsumaria TV website, during which he declared that any aggression [on the part of the U.S.] would trigger the renewal of resistance operations against it.
On August 8, 2024, several unofficial Telegram channels supporting Iran-backed Iraqi militias reported that a commander in Iraq's Iran-backed Hizbullah Brigades, had been killed "while carrying out his holy duty."
On August 7, 2024, the Iran-backed organization "The Global Front Of The Youth Of The Resistance," reported on its Arabic-language Telegram channel that its director, Ismail Bor Hawashimi, met in Baghdad with Hadi Al-Ameri, the head of Iraq's Iran-backed Badr Organization.
The newly-opened representation office of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) in Baghdad posted on its Telegram channel dozens of posters that appear to be part of a media campaign aimed at raising the group's profile among Iraqi youth, in what may be part of a recruitment outreach effort.
On August 8, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq shared posts as part of its efforts to publish identifying information on U.S. interests and businesses in Iraq, alleging that they support Israel.
On August 13, 2024, an Iran-backed group of Iraqi hackers claimed to have launched a cyberattack targeting several Jordanian government websites, causing widespread disruption.
Syrian Opposition Media: With Russia's Help, Iran Building, Equipping Base On Syria's Coastline
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On August 12, 2024, the pro-Syrian opposition outlet Syria TV reported on its website that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has finished building its first naval base between the cities of Jableh and Baniyas on the Syrian coastline.
Syrian Opposition Outlet: Iran Deploys 150 Afghan And Iraqi Fighters To Syria's Deir Al-Zour
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A Syrian opposition website reported that 150 Afghan and Iraqi fighters were deployed from Iraq to Syria under the auspices of Iran. The website published an article on August 14, 2024, titled "Military Reinforcements for Militias Supported by Iran Arrive from Iraq to Albukamal."
Al-Qaeda's Affiliate In Sahel (GSIM) Claims Killing 140 Soldiers Near Burkina Faso's Fada
On August 13, 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 responsibility for an August 9 attack against the Burkinabe Army.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate GSIM Claims Casualties In Assaults On Armed Forces In Mali, Togo, Benin
On August 11, 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 statements claiming responsibility for recent attacks in Mali, Togo, and Benin.
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 statements claiming responsibility for recent attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso.
On August 13, 2024, the military command of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a statement in Somali claiming responsibility for a same-day "crushing assault" on a military base of Somali government militias in Ilbakh, on the outskirts of Balcad, in Somalia's Middle Shabelle province.
Pro-Al-Qaeda Media Group Urges Attacks In France
On August 8, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda outlet published a poster depicting a person holding a handgun following a group of policemen.
On August 14, 2024, an Al-Qaeda follower on an Al-Qaeda-operated server posted the sixth issue of "Inspire The Believers," the pro-Al-Qaeda magazine.
On August 14, 2024, Al-Qaeda supporters on an Al-Qaeda-operated server shared Issue Six of the pro-Al-Qaeda magazine, "Inspire The Believers."
On August 9, 2024, a user of the English-language chatroom on an Al-Qaeda-operated server asked for material to prove the permissibility of suicide bombings, known among jihadis as "martyrdom-seeking" operations.
An Egyptian-born pro-Al-Qaeda cleric residing in Canada, resumed harsh criticism of Hamas after the instatement of Yahya Al-Sinwar as the group's leader following the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
On August 12, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) Syria Province published a statement claiming that a day earlier, operatives of the group shot and killed a "spy" for the "apostate PKK," i.e., the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in his home in Suwaydan, near Dhiban, southeast of Deir Al-Zour.
On August 10, 2024, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed a large attack in the village of Mbalimbangua, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Tshopo province.
On August 8, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 455 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which featured an editorial stressing the need for jihadis to not lose hope following trials and periods of weakness.
On August 10, 2024, a media group which is affiliated with prominent female Islamic State (ISIS) supporter published a post penned by her, commenting on news the same day of an Israeli airstrike on a school building in Gaza believed to host Hamas operatives.
On August 12, 2024, an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on the Al-Qaeda operated Rocket.Chat server claimed that fighters are continuing to defect from the organization's Somalia branch.
On August 12, 2024 the prolific Al-Azaim Foundation, an outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), published a poster in English titled "While Children Starve To Death In Gaza" condemning Arab and Islamic leaders for allegedly allowing Gaza's children starve.
On August 12, 2024, an Australian pro-Islamic State (ISIS) preacher, a central figure in the Salafi and jihadi community in Australia and among English-speaking jihadis on social media, posted on a video on his Telegram channel in which he discusses a new amendment to the Australian Counter-Terrorism Legislation.
On August 12, 2024, the General Security Department of the Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS)-backed Salvation Government issued a statement claiming that its security forces engaged in clashes with Islamic State (ISIS) operatives in northern Idlib.
Syrian Rebel Group Ahrar Al-Sham Documents Military Training Of Its Elite Brigade
On August 11-12, 2024, a Telegram channel that supports Syrian Islamist group Ahrar Al-Sham, published a photoset documenting the military training of the group's Nukhba [elite] Brigade in a "level-up [training] camp."
Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) In Syria Documents Ceremony Honoring Military Trainers
On August 8, 2024, the Turkestan Islamic Party's (TIP) branch in Syria released a photoset of a ceremony commending its military trainers.
On August 4, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan criticized the Afghan Taliban Deputy Prime Minister for Political Affairs Mawlawi Abdul Kabir for saying at the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: "Maybe if we shared a border with the occupying [Israeli] regime, we would have gone to war with the Zionists in defense of the oppressed people of Gaza."
