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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EXCLUSIVE: Islamic Center Of America Held Memorial Service For Hizbullah Operative
A December 26, 2023 Israeli strike on a building in Bint Jbeil, a well-known Hizbullah stronghold in South Lebanon, reportedly killed three people: Ali Bazzi, his brother Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim's wife Shorouq Hamoud.
A December 26, 2023 Israeli strike on a building in Bint Jbeil, a well-known Hizbullah stronghold in South Lebanon, reportedly killed three people: Ali Bazzi, his brother Ibrahim Bazzi and Ibrahim's wife Shorouq Hamoud.
On December 23, 2023, Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) Britain held a conference in London titled "Answer the Call: Liberate Palestine."
On January 2, 2024, Hamas issued a statement condemning what it described as "the cowardly assassinations" carried out by Israel "against the leaders and symbols of our Palestinian people inside and outside Palestine."
On January 3, 2023, the Secretary General of Lebanese Hizbullah, Hassan Nasrallah, made a televised speech in which he vowed to avenge the killing of Saleh Al-Arouri, the deputy chief of Hamas's Political Bureau.
A notice issued December 28, 2023 by Hizbullah's "military media" urges the inhabitants of South Lebanon villages near the Israeli border to disconnect their security cameras from the internet.
On December 28, 2023, a Syrian opposition website reported that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) trained militias in Albukamal, Syria, to use Iran-made drones.
Jaysh Al-Muhajireen Wal Ansar (JMWA), or The Army of the Emigrants and Supporters, is a Syria-based jihadi group aligned with Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) in Idlib.
On December 27, 2023, the heads of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement armed forces and security bodies convened what they called "an exceptional meeting" in the city of Al-Hudayah on the coast of the Red Sea.
A December 29, 2023 article by the pro-Hizbullah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar claimed that Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) has formulated "a new comprehensive military deterrence plan" to confront threats to "Yemen's maritime sovereignty" posed by U.S. actions in the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb. Quoting "Yemeni military sources," Al-Akhbar stated that an "exceptional meeting" of senior Houthi military and security officials held on the evening of December 27 in the Red Sea port of Al-Hudaydah discussed "several response options to the American mobilization, Washington's efforts to militarize the Red Sea, and the movement of the tools of the [United Arab] Emirates on the western coast," after the Houthis received direct and indirect threats from America.
On December 31, 2023, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) issued a statement.
On December 31, 2023, Houthi armed forces spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yahya Saree' posted a message on his X account saying that 10 members of the Yemeni navy were killed or missing following an attack by "the American enemy" on three boats.
On January 3, 2024, Brigadier-General Yahya Saree', the military spokesman of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), issued a statement on X (formerly Twitter), claiming an attack on the CMA CGM TAGE container ship, which he alleged was "heading towards the ports of occupied Palestine."
Between December 27-28, 2023, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq claimed an attack against a U.S. base in northern Iraq, an Israeli moshav in the Golan Heights, and an alleged Israeli espionage center in northern Iraq, as part of its efforts to resist "the American occupation forces in Iraq and the region" and respond to "the Zionist entity’s massacres against our people in Gaza."
On December 28, 2023, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia' Al-Sudani stated that his government is working on ending the presence of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, including the security advisors who are helping the Iraqi forces in the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS).
On December 28, 2023, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq--an umbrella organization consisting of several Iraqi militias backed by Iran--claimed a missile attack on a U.S. base near the Conoco natural gas field, in northeastern Syria.
In advance of New Year's Day 2024, several Telegram channels supporting Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq released posters and a video threatening U.S. forces in Iraq and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, vowing a "new year full of revenge" and an "unmerry Christmas" for American troops in the country.
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, released a series of statements and video footage claiming rocket and drone attacks on U.S. military personnel in Syria and Iraq, as well as on Israeli sites in the days that followed.
On January 2, 2024, Saleh Al-Arouri, the deputy chief of Hamas' political bureau, was killed in an Israeli drone attack targeting his office in the Dahieh neighborhood of southern Beirut, considered a Hizbullah stronghold.
On December 28, 2023, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 423 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'. It featured an editorial, titled: "Do not think it is bad for you."
On January 2, 2024, supporters affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS) and Al-Qaeda shared content aimed at exploiting the power struggle in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Issue 423 of Al-Naba', the official weekly magazine of the Islamic State (ISIS), published on December 28, 2023, included "exclusive" reports of two attacks in Iraq previously unclaimed by the Islamic State Iraq Province, as well as an "exclusive" photo documenting an already claimed attack in the country.
On December 29, 2023, an unofficial media outlet affiliated with the Islamic State's Khorasan Province (ISKP) published an English-language poster titled "O Taliban Followers."
A cover article in the latest issue of an English-language monthly magazine published a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) dubs Jews the killers of prophets, accuses them of controlling global financial systems and media, and of promoting polytheism, poverty, socio-political unrest, corruption, injustice, immorality, and extrajudicial murder.
On January 2, 2023, an Australia-based Islamic center affiliated with pro-ISIS preacher Wisam (Abu Ousayd) Haddad, requested donations, trying to raise $12,000 Australian dollars – a little over $8,000 U.S. dollars – on Telegram.
On December 31, 2023, one of the media arms of Al-Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula (AQAP) aka Ansar Al-Shari’ah released a 41-minute video.
On December 30, 2023, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen, released a video titled "What America & The West Do Not Expect."
On December 30, 2023, Al-Sahab, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda's central command, published Issue 41 of its Al-Nafir bulletin.
On January 2, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), published a denial of a December 29 statement by the Malian Directorate of Information and Public Relations of the Armed Forces (DIRPA), according to which Malian forces killed several "terrorists" in two "surgical strikes" using drones in Mali's Kidal region.
On December 27, 2023, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a statement claiming that early that morning Al-Shabab operatives shelled the presidential palace, in the "most fortified area of Mogadishu."
On January 2, 2024, Shahada, the news agency of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda-affiliate Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, published a summary, in Arabic, of a press conference held by the group's spokesperson, Sheikh Ali Mahmud Raji, aka Ali Dheere.
Several articles in the latest issue of the Urdu-language magazine "Shariat," which is an official publication of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban), advocate jihad as a strategy to counter Israel in Gaza and criticize the silence of most Islamic nations on the Palestinian issue.
