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 July 29, 2024, the media arm of Islamic State Pakistan Province, Nashir Pakistan, released a poster in Urdu and English threatening lone wolf attacks on visitors attending the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
On August 2, 2024, a Telegram channel linked to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published a post suggesting that an "exceptional" attack is imminent, involving the IRGC and Iran-backed groups in the region, including Lebanese Hizbullah, Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis), and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq.
On August 5, 2024, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed resigned and fled to India by helicopter after her official residence was stormed by thousands of protestors following weeks of unrest.
On August 5, 2024, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed resigned and fled the country, seeking temporary refuge in India.
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On August 5, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Iran-backed Iraqi Zulfiqar faction, which is part of the Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, published posts with images and footage showing what it said was a vehicle used to launch rockets on an Iraqi base in Anbar housing U.S. forces.
On August 6, 2024, Hamas named Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the group’s forces in the Gaza Strip, as the group's new political chief, following the death of Ismail Haniyeh in a bombing in Tehran on July 31, in an operation attributed to Israel.
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A media outlet affiliated with the Syrian opposition published photos reportedly showing Iran-backed militias training children to shoot at cardboard mannequins of American and Israeli leaders.
On X (formerly Twitter), a man has alluded to violence on several occasions, and has encouraged his followers to participate in, and prepare for, waging jihad.
On August 6, 2024, the Secretary General of Lebanese Hizbullah Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech marking the one-week anniversary of the assassination of Faud Shukr, aka Mohsen Shukr, a senior military commander in the group who was killed in an Israeli strike that targeted his location in the southern suburb of Beirut.
Lebanese Hizbullah Claims 2,500 Attacks On Israel Since Outbreak Of Israel-Hamas War
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An infographic released by Lebanese Hizbullah tallied hostilities committed by the group against Israel during the first 300 days of the Israel-Hamas war.
On August 6, 2024, Abdel-Aziz bin Habtour, prime minister of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), told Yemen's Houthi-run Al-Masirah media outlet that Yemen, as part of the "resistance axis," would participate in the "response to the Zionist entity [Israel]."
On August 4, 2024, Yahya Sare'e, the official spokesman of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis), issued a claim for two attacks targeting a U.S. drone flying above Yemen and a commercial ship in the Gulf of Aden.
On August 7, 2024, Yahya Sare'e, the official spokesman of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis), issued a statement in which he claimed three attacks targeting a commercial ship and two U.S. destroyers in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Eden.
On August 4, 2024, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported that a commander from Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) was "martyred" in a U.S. strike in Iraq.
On August 5, 2024, the Syrian opposition-affiliated Euphrates Eye website reported that about 50 operatives of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) had arrived in Syria that morning and the previous evening from Iraq.
On August 5, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published posts instructing Palestinian supporters to prepare to document in photos and videos the anticipated Iranian attack against Israel to avenge Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Teheran on July 31.
A Telegram channel affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published posts suggesting that Tehran is preparing for an imminent attack against Israel.
On August 5, 2024, a new Iraqi group affiliated with Iran's so-called "Islamic Resistance in Iraq" claimed responsibility for a same-day attack that targeted an air base housing U.S. forces in Anbar, western Iraq.
On July 31, 2024, Hamas's political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh was killed in Tehran, in a targeted strike which Hamas and Iran-backed groups have blamed on Israel.
On August 1, 2024, Al-Malahim Media, the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released the eighth issue of its series, "Inspire Guide," which incites Muslims residing in the West to carry out lone-wolf attacks.
Jaysh Al-Ummah Al-Salafi fi Bayt Al-Maqdis, an Al-Qaeda aligned Salafi-jihadi group based in Gaza, is soliciting Tether cryptocurrency donations to fund its militant operations.
Al-Qaeda Supporter Urges Stabbing Of Israelis, Americans, Europeans To 'Defend' Al-Aqsa Mosque
On August 5, 2024, a prominent Al-Qaeda supporter published a post on Telegram celebrating an August 4 stabbing attack in Holon, a suburb of Tel Aviv, which killed two civilians and injured two more.
On August 4, 2024, a user of the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.Chat server shared a post claiming that threats had been made against a mosque in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, and urging other users to contact the authorities and the mosque's management.
On August 3, 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 an August 2 large-scale attack by the group's "martyrdom-seekers" battalion against a nightclub on Mogadishu's Lido Beach.
On August 6, 2024, Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), claimed in a statement that Al-Shabaab operatives bombarded the residence of former acting president of Somalia and current incumbent speaker, Adam Madori, a.k.a. Aden Mohamed Nuur Madobe, in the city of Baidoa in Bay State, southwestern Somalia.
On August 3, 2024, the Al-Furqan Radio media outlet of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a 40-minute video interview in Somali with the group's spokesperson, Ali Mahmoud Rage aka Ali Dheere.
On August 2, 2024, Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel region, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (JNIM), ("The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims," GSIM), released an approximately two-minute video, showing two Russian citizens whom the group has taken prisoner.
On July 27, 2024, Al-Zallaqa, the official media outlet 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), reported a "qualitative ambush," killing over 60 forces of the Malian army and the Russian Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) in Tinzaouaten, in Mali's Kidal Region.
A Syrian opposition media outlet reported that Abu Mohammed Al-Joulani, the leader of Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), is considering attacking Syrian positions near Aleppo in the event that war breaks out between Israel and Iran-backed militias in Syria and Lebanon.
On August 6, 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 a set of photos purporting to show an attack on Syrian Army positions on the Jabal Al-Zawiya front, in the region south of Idlib.
On August 2, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) published issue 454 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', featuring an editorial titled with a Quranic verse that reads "Those who perished [through disbelief] would perish upon evidence."
On August 1, 2024, Uwwar Al-Haqq, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet, released a poster criticizing Muslims for eulogizing slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.
Following the assassination of Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, a prolific pro-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on Telegram posted a video compilation of Hamas leaders praising Iran and Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in the region.
Two articles in the latest issue of the "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), teach Muslims to recognize da'is ("preachers") who deviate from shari'a and stress the understanding of martyrdom and jihad as necessary for the advancement of Islam in the world.
On August 2, 2024, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) published a photoset documenting an attack by the group on the "Christian village" of Bandulu, in the Lubero territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) North-Kivu province.
On August 2, 2024, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) released a set of eight photos showing some of "the da'wah [preaching] activities of the caliphate soldiers" in the Nigeria's northeastern Borno State.
After the July 31, 2024 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) published a statement, two articles, and a message from Afghan Taliban Prime Minister Mullah Muhammad Hasan Akhund.
A Dari-language article published July 17, 2024, titled "The Unstable Alliance: Is Cooperation Between The United States And The Taliban In The Fight Against ISKP Beneficial For Global Security?" and written by Besmillah Taban, Afghanistan's former Director General of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), examines the alliance between the United States and the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban).
A Telegram channel publishing reports of Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan shared on July 9, 2024, a Dari-language translation of a book detailing the structure of a hypothetical shari'a-based education system to be implemented under an Islamic Caliphate. Hizb-ut-Tahrir is a global Islamist organization with branches in many countries working for the revival of the Caliphate.
