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 August 19, 2024, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia issued an official statement on its Telegram channel announcing that it had changed its "blessed jihadi name" and its logo, and from now on would be called the "Jerusalem Outcry Brigades."
On August 17, 2024, unofficial Telegram channels affiliated with Hamas and the Iran-backed militias in Iraq shared a three-page letter from the Hamas military wing, the 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades.
On August 12, 2024, the chairman of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis), announced the formation of a new government.
On August 17, 2024, a Gazan Al-Qaeda supporter with close ties to Syrian jihadis, published a lengthy Telegram post describing the current plight of Gazans and urging the world's Muslims to take action to defend them.
On August 2, 2024, a media report gave the names of the Afghan Taliban officials who facilitated the relocation and sheltering of Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri in Kabul, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike on July 31, 2022.
A pro-Hamas Telegram channel that often glorifies Hamas's "martyrdom attacks" against Israelis and "settlers," published a new series of posters, encouraging Arabs residing in the West Bank to join the path of "liberating Palestine."
On August 19, 2024, Hamas' military wing, the 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, published a statement claiming that the group was behind the previous day's "martyrdom-seeking operation" in Tel Aviv, in collaboration with the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).
On August 21, 2024, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-affiliated Fatah movement, announced that one of its commanders in Lebanon, had been "martyred" in an Israeli airstrike in Sidon "while performing his duty of struggle as part of the Al-Aqsa Flood battle."
On August 16, 2024, Telegram channels affiliated with Lebanese Hizbullah published a new video whose title refers to an underground facility where the film shows trucks carrying weapons inside large tunnels.
A website affiliated with Lebanese Hizbullah detailed specifications of drone-fired missiles which are in the possession of Iran and Iran-backed militias.
An Iran-backed Iraqi militia spokesman accused the U.S and United Kingdom of "massacring" thousands of Gazans via their support of Israel's military operation against Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip.
On August 14, 2024, 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 would trigger the renewal of resistance operations.
On August 16, 2024, a Syrian opposition-affiliated website reported that roughly 100 members of Iran-backed militias entered Syria from Iraq, on the same day, using the Al-Bukamal border crossing.
On August 16, 2024, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed responsibility for a suicide attack carried out with a SVBIED (Suicide Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device) that allegedly caused 50 casualties among UAE-backed "mercenaries" at a military base in the Al-Furayyd area in the Mudiyah District of Yemen's Abyan Governorate.
On August 18, 2024, prominent Al-Qaeda supporter quoted reports that the commander of the Security Belt forces in the Al-Mahfid district of Yemen's Abyan Governorate, had been killed in clashes with Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) operatives.
On August 18, 2024, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) aka Ansar Al-Shari’ah, released an approximately one-minute videoclip that includes footage of its August 16 SVBIED (Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device) attack on a military base of UAE-backed forces in the Mudiyah District of Yemen's Abyan Governorate.
On August 19, 2024, Al-Nusrah Foundation for Media production, a media outlet supportive of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), published two posters eulogizing four of its operatives, declaring that the group would follow their path in jihad and threatening the UAE-backed forces in Yemen with further suicide attacks.
On August 14, 2024, Al-Qaeda supporters on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket chat server shared Issue 6 of the pro-Al-Qaeda magazine, Inspire The Believers.
On August 20, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published four statements detailing recent activity by the group, including assaults on Somali security officials, armed forces in Somalia and Kenya, and executions of soldiers captured by the group.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate Al-Shabab Claims 'Martyrdom' Operation Against Somali Intelligence In Mogadishu
On August 21, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), claimed that the group had carried out, on the same day, a suicide operation that targeted an intelligence base in Mogadishu.
On August 14, 2024, an Al-Qaeda follower on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket chat server posted the 6th issue of "Inspire The Believers," the pro-Al-Qaeda magazine.
On August 21, 2024, a prolific Al-Qaeda supporter, released a poster inciting all Muslims to "wage jihad and struggle" for the sake of Islam and the Muslim Ummah to the best of their ability.
During the week, August 13-19, 2024, 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 several attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso.
On August 15, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), published a 16-minute video of an audio speech in Arabic with French subtitles by GSIM field commander, 'Uthman Al-Ansari.
On August 17, 2024, the official media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) published the ninth episode of the video series "Enlightening the Minds About the Apostasy of Algeria's Rulers."
On August 10, 2024, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed a heavy attack in the village of Mbalimbangua, in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) Tshopo province.
Islamic State Weekly Editorial Advocates Jihad As 'Only Solution' To Defend Muslims From Massacres
On August 15, 2024, the Islamic State released issue 456 of Al-Naba', ISIS's weekly newsletter.
On August 15, 2024, a user of the Islamic State (ISIS)-operated server on Rocket Chat posted a photo of a man whom he identified as the current Caliph of ISIS.
On August 17, 2024, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) claimed that on the previous day, "soldiers of the caliphate" fired machine guns at a group of "militias allied with the crusader Congolese army" in Isangi village, in the Lubero territory of the DRC's North-Kivu province, killing one militiaman and causing the rest to flee.
On August 17, 2024, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) claimed an August 15 on employees of the Red Cross, accompanied by Nigerien soldiers, in Niger's Diffa Region, near the border with Nigeria.
On August 15, 2024, Islamic State (ISIS) supporters discussed traveling internationally to wage jihad on an ISIS-operated server.
On August 16, 2024, a user on an Islamic State (ISIS)-operated server promoted a new English-language magazine.
An anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on an Al-Qaeda-operated server published a two-page internal circular among ISIS's commanders In Iraq Province discussing extortion of money from residents to fund the group activities.
On August 18, 2024, Al-Azaim Media Foundation, a media outlet linked to Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), released issue 38 of its English-language magazine, "Voice of Khurasan." It featured two posters encouraging Muslims to make donations to the group.
On August 14, 2024, the Interior Ministry of the Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS)-linked Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) released photos documenting a ceremony for the first class of graduates from its sponsored police academy in Idlib.
Shortly after midnight on August 18, 2024, Telegram channels supporting Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) reported clashes at the Kabashin front northwest of Aleppo.
On August 18, 2024, a pro-Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) media outlet published on Telegram a poster series.
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.
A group of mujahideen from the Caucasus affiliated with Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), released a set of photos showing recruits attending courses on shari'a.
On July 20, 2024, Afghanistan daily Etilaat Roz published a major Dari-language article examining the growing militarization of the Afghan Taliban's Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, which replaced the women's affairs ministry after the Taliban jihadi forces took over Afghanistan in August 2021.
Recently, two videos emerged of Islamic religious scholars in Afghanistan speaking about the situation in Palestine and mourning the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.
On August 2, the official Telegram channel of the anti-Iran armed group Jaish Al-Adl shared a Persian-language video featuring the confessions of six men who had been captured and accused of collaborating with the Iranian government to kill Jaish Al-Adl members.
Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, prime minister of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban), issued a statement marking the third anniversary of the Taliban takeover of the country.
On August 14, 2024, the Interior Ministry of the Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS)-linked Syrian Salvation Government (SSG) organized a ceremony to celebrate the graduates of the first class of police officer from its sponsored police academy in Syria's Idlib.
On August 6, 2024, the AlMirsaad.com, which is linked to the Afghan Taliban's General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI), published a Pashtu-language article.
In a Pashtu-language article, a website closely connected with the General Director of Intelligence (GDI), the intelligence department of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban), says that Pakistan has established a new terrorist group to advance its foreign policy goals in the region and pressure the Afghan Taliban.
On August 15, 2024, the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan, which is one of the main anti-Taliban resistance groups, released a statement on the occasion of the third anniversary of the collapse of the former Afghan government and the Taliban's seizure of power.
On August 17, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan published a short article emphasizing the need for a single caliphate and unified government for Muslims.
