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 31, 2024, pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlets published posters threatening attacks in New York and an imminent attack in London.
A user recently shared a link on an Islamic State (ISIS)-operated server to a Sky News report on YouTube about ISIS terror threats to Europe.
On September 3, 2024, the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), a Uyghur jihadi group active in Afghanistan and northwestern Syria and linked to Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), published a photoset documenting a ceremony in honor of operatives who graduated from a shari'a course in Syria's Idlib area.
On September 4, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet released a poster depicting a masked figure with an ISIS flag and a map of Europe in the background.
In recent days, a pro-Hamas Telegram channel, which often praises Hamas's and other Palestinian groups' attacks against Israelis and "settlers" in the West bank, published a new series of posters, encouraging shooting attacks and bombings in the West Bank.
A Sydney-based pro-ISIS preacher called for donations to fund the publication of anti-democracy booklets to be distributed to Muslims in Australia.
Issue 458 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly newsletter Al-Naba', released on August 29, 2024, featured details of a stabbing incident, claimed by ISIS, at a festival in Solingen, Germany.
On August 29, 2024, a Telegram bot shared posters by the media warfare unit of Hamas's military wing soliciting donations in Bitcoin cryptocurrency "in support of the resistance" in the Gaza Strip.
On September 4, 2024, a prominent supporter of Al-Qaeda, shared links to two Telegram posts by the military wing of the Palestinian Popular Resistance Committees (PRC).
On September 4, 2024, the official website of Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) featured an editorial piece.
Houthi Ansar Allah Movement Claims Attack On Container Vessel In Gulf Of Aden
On August 31, 2024, Yahya Sare'e, military spokesperson for Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), published a statement claiming responsibility for a "military operation" targeting the Groton container vessel in the Gulf of Aden, "owing to the violation of the blockade of the ports of occupied Palestine."
On August 29, 2024, the Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) published on Telegram a video documenting an alleged attack by its operatives on the Greek ship (SOUNION) in the Red Sea.
On August 30, 2024, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported on a Friday sermon delivered that day by Ahmad Qabalan, a Hizbullah-affiliated Lebanese Shiite mufti, at the Al-Imam Al-Husayn mosque in Bourj Al-Barajneh, a Palestinian refugee camp near Beirut.
A relatively new group calling itself the Iraqi Resistance-Fighter Group, which is affiliated with Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq, posted on August 28, 2024, the following on its Telegram channel: "We are continuing with our military operations; our goal is one and we will pray in Jerusalem, if Allah wills it."
Syrian Opposition Website: Iran-Backed Iraqi Militia Smuggles Drugs From Lebanon To Syria And Iraq
On August 29, 2024, a pro-opposition media outlet that covers the Deir Al-Zour region in northeastern Syria reported that an Iran-backed militia had transported a shipment of Captagon drugs from Lebanon via Syria's Homs Governorate.
On August 30, 2024, the Syrian opposition-affiliated Naher Media website reported that during late August the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) began to recruit dozens of minors in the city of Deir Al-Zour and the surrounding countryside.
On August 30, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet reported that on the previous day, gunmen attacked a "Rafidite [a pejorative term for Shi'ites] religious school" belonging to the "Iran-backed un-Islamic Movement in Nigeria" [i.e. the Islamic Movement of Nigeria] in Geidam, Yobe state, killing three Shi'ites and wounding a fourth.
On September 1, 2024, Islamic State Sahel Province released 21 photos documenting an ambush on a convoy of the Nigerien army, in Doungouro, in the Tillabéri region of Niger.
Islamic State Iraq Province Claims Two Attacks Against Army, Popular And Tribal Mobilization Units
On September 1 and 4, 2024, Islamic State Iraq Province claimed that its fighters had carried out two late August attacks in central Iraq against the Iraqi army and Popular and Tribal Mobilization Units (PMU and TMU).
On August 28, 2024, a Russian-language media outlet linked to official Islamic State (ISIS) media released a nine-minute video titled "Bad Servants," that aims to discredit the leaders of the Palestinian Sunni Hamas for their ties to the Shi'ite regime in Iran.
On August 29, 2024, U.S. and Iraqi Security Forces conducted a joint operation in the desert in Al-Anbar Governorate against Islamic State (ISIS) operatives.
On September 3, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet devoted to the Indian Subcontinent, released a three-page document in English titled "O Muslims Of Bangladesh – Halfway Done, Now Strive For The Rule Of Allah!"
On September 3, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet shared rare photographs documenting ISIS zakat (an obligatory Islamic tax for charity) collectors in the town of Takamanat, in Niger's Tahoua region where, according to the post, on September 1, ISIS fighters ambushed a convoy of the Niger Armed Forces.
On August 29, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 458 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
On September 3, 2024, A'maq News Agency, an official media outlet of the Islamic State (ISIS), released a statement reporting that on September 2, a fighter from the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) detonated his explosive vest targeting the personnel of the Afghan Taliban-run prosecutor's office in Kabul.
A prominent supporter of Al-Qaeda criticized the president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Ali Al-Qaradaghi, for condemning the August 23 stabbing attack in Solingen, Germany, for which the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility.
Pro-Al-Qaeda Media Group Recruits Operatives To Workshop On Media Jihad Techniques
On August 26, 2024, prominent Al-Qaeda supporter Warith Al-Qassam shared a poster by the pro-Al-Qaeda Islamic Media Cooperation Council (IMCC) announcing its recruitment of media operatives to a workshop on "publishing and [media] raids."
On August 30, 2024, the official media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) released a 31-minute video featuring an audio message in Arabic from a senior AQIM operative.
Recent months have seen heated ideological disputes among Al-Qaeda supporters, mainly concerning the organization's attitude toward Hamas.
During August 30-31, 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 Burkina Faso.
Al-Shabab Claimed Eight Attacks In Three Days On Somali, Ugandan, And Ethiopian Forces
From September 1-3, 2024, Al-Shabab claimed responsibility for eight attacks targeting pro-Somali Government militias, as well as Ugandan and Ethiopian forces in various parts of Somalia.
On September 2, 2024, the Amjad Media Foundation, an official outlet of Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), published a "field statement" by the group's Northern Operations Command discussing a "qualitative operation" carried out earlier that day at the Kabashin front northwest of Aleppo.
On September 1, 2024, a journalist supporting Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) reported that Syrian Islamist group Ansar Al-Tawhid targeted an Assad regime operations room in Al-Milajah, south of Idlib, using an explosives-rigged FPV drone.
