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: Supporters of ISIS Celebrate Copenhagen Mall Shooting As 'Gift' From ISIS
On July 3, 2022, Islamic State (ISIS) supporters on the ISIS-operated server on Rocket.Chat reacted to news reports about a shooting that took place the same day in a shopping mall in Copenhagen, Denmark.
On June 29, 2022, a criminal court in France ruled that Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist Salah Abdeslam – the only terrorist to survive the series of attacks in Paris on November 13, 2015, in which 130 people were murdered and hundreds were injured – was guilty of murder and terrorism, and sentenced him to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole.
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At a conference of Islamic religious clerics organized by the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban jihadi organization that seized power on August 15, 2021), Mawlawi Mujeeb Rahman Ansari, a 38-year-old preacher at a mosque in the northwestern province of Herat, called for the issuance of a fatwa authorizing the beheading of anyone who moves even slightly against the Taliban government.
Jihadis are continuing to react online to the June 27, 2022 U.S. Central Command announcement that an airstrike in Idlib killed Abu Hamzah Al-Yemeni, a senior leader of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria, Hurras Al-Din.
On June 16, 2022, China blocked a joint move by the U.S. and India to list Abdul Rehman Makki under the UN Security Council's sanctions. Abdul Rehman Makki is a senior leader of the outlawed Pakistani jihadi organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is founded by his brother-in-law Hafiz Muhammad Saeed.
Official ISIS News Agency Releases Video Footage Of Apparent ISIS Prison Break Near Nigerian Capital
On July 6, 2022, ISIS's Amaq News Agency released video footage reportedly documenting a July 5 prison break in which ISIS operatives freed dozens of detainees from a government-run prison in Kuji, Nigeria.
ISIS News Agency Releases Further Details On Nigeria Prison Break
On July 6, 2022, the ISIS A'maq News Agency issued a follow-up statement with additional details on the July 5 prison break in Kuje, outside the Nigerian capital Abuja.
On June 30, 2022, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 345 of its weekly newsletter Al-Naba', featuring an editorial titled: "Patience, Oh Prisons of The Two Holy Mosques [in Saudi Arabia]."
During the last week of June 2022, the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for a series of operations carried out against the Egyptian Army and the tribes that cooperate with it in northern Sinai. ISIS claims that six Egyptian fighters were killed and others were wounded.
On July 4, 2022, ISIS media issued claims reporting that ISIS had attacked a position of the Niger army the day before in a town located in Niger's southeastern Diffa region, near the border with Nigeria.
In Kurdish-Language Video, ISIS-Iraq Calls On Kurds To Join Its Ranks
On July 1, 2022, the information bureau of the Islamic State (ISIS) Iraq province released a 40-minute video in the Kurdish language, with Arabic subtitles. The video addresses the Kurdish Muslims and urges them to stop serving the unbelievers and to join the ranks of the Houthi mujahideen who seek to establish an Islamic state.
A key article in the latest issue of the Islamic State's Khurasan Province (ISIS-K) magazine "Voice Of Khurasan" criticizes the Afghan Taliban for adopting a friendly policy toward India.
Pro-ISIS Video Highlights Attacks Against Azawad, Tuareg Groups In Mali; Police, Army In Niger
On June 30, 2022, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel, posted a six-minute video produced by a pro-ISIS outlet highlighting attacks in ISIS's Sahel Province between April 12 and June 5, 2022.
On July 5, 2022, the pro- Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet published a four-minute-long audio recording of an essay titled "Severing the Christian Hand [Raised] Over the Islamic Nation," which argued that the group's growing presence in Africa is a manifestation of its Islamic responsibility to protect vulnerable Muslims and address local grievances, which are ignored by leaders and politicians.
On July 1, 2022, a Turkish Telegram channel "devoted to women held in refugee camps such as Al-Hol in Syria, posted photos documenting donations of Syrian Lira, allegedly delivered to "our prisoner brothers in the prison camp."
An anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel in the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.chat server claimed that several senior ISIS officials were killed in Iraq in May 2022.
In a press release issued on July 6, 2022 on his blog, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) British preacher called on Muslims in India and around the world to adhere to the tradition of slaughtering cows as sacrifices in the upcoming Eid Al-Adha (July 9-13), which marks the end of the Hajj (ritual pilgrimage to Mecca).
British Pro-ISIS Preacher: Replace 'Illegitimate Saudi Regime'
On the occasion of the 2022 Hajj pilgrimage to Muslim holy sites in Saudi Arabia, which this year falls between July 7 and 12, a British pro-Islamic State (ISIS) preacher levelled harsh criticism at the Saudi regime which, he claims, exploits the pilgrims by charging them high prices while also preventing Muslims who criticize it from fulfilling the obligation to observe the Hajj.
Al-Qaeda Sahel Affiliate Reportedly Claims New Attack Against Burkina Faso Forces
On July 4, a Twitter account shared a claim of responsibility of an attack in Burkina Faso on June 29, reportedly published by the media arm of GSIM on July 2. The account shared the claim with the caption "The Group for Support of Islam and Muslims in the Burkina [Faso] area claims an attack on [the army] without mentioning human losses [on its side]."
Al-Qaeda Sahel Affiliate Reportedly Claims Four Attacks Against Malian and Burkina Faso Forces
On June 29-30, a Twitter account shared two claims of responsibility for attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso reportedly published by the media arm of GSIM.
Al-Shabab Claims Attack On Somali Foreign Ministry In Mogadishu
On July 5, 2022, the official news outlet of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) reported that an Al-Shabab security detachment detonated two IEDs at the Somali Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital, Mogadishu.
Al-Shabab Claims Ambush Of Convoy Of U.S. And Somali Special Forces North Of Mogadishu
On July 1, 2022, the official news outlet of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) reported that three soldiers from "the Somali Special Forces trained by the U.S. [the Danab Brigade]" were killed, and five others were wounded in an ambush laid by Al-Shabab for "a military convoy of the American and Somali Special Forces" in southern Somalia.
The second issue of the Arabic-language magazine Sawt Al-Qara'a Al-Samra'a (The Voice of the Black Continent), which was published by Al-Qaeda's Nigerian affiliate, Jama'at Ansar al-Muslimeen fi Bilad Al-Sudan (Ansaru), on June 30, 2022, contains an article titled "The Truth about the Alliance between the Al-Qaeda Organization and the Regime of the Mullahs in Iran."
On June 30, 2022, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's Nigerian affiliate Ansar Al-Muslimeen fi Bilad Al-Sudan (Ansaru), released the second issue of its Arabic-language publication titled, Sawt Al-Qarrah Al-Samra'a (The Voice of the Black Continent).
On July 2, 2022, a Syrian opposition website reported that the Iran-backed Afghan Fatemiyoun militia had recently constructed a training base in northeast Syria, to serve its forces as well as forces from Hizbullah and the Iraqi Al-Nujaba Movement.
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On July 3, 2022, an online portal affiliated with Lebanese Hizbullah, posted a report detailing the chronology of the group's use and deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) over Israel and the Mediterranean Sea.
On July 3, 2022, a Syrian opposition website published an "exclusive" report stating that the Iran-backed Al-Nujaba Movement militia had held a course in northern Syria to train Special Forces, under the supervision of senior members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).
In recent years the Syrian regime, headed by Bashar Al-Assad, has been conducting a struggle against the American military presence in Syria by means of what it refers to as "popular resistance." This resistance is expressed by blocking roads and throwing stones when convoys of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS or American forces move around the country.
As it does every year, this summer as well the Houthi Ansar Allah movement held its traditional summer camps for the participants in its youth movement, and like last year, its slogan this summer was "Knowledge and Jihad."
Recently, an Indian news outlet published a profile, titled "How Lucknow-Educated Chinese Cleric Lit The First Jihad Fire In Xinjiang," of Hai Weiliang, a jihadi ideologue and founder of the jihadi movement in China's Xinjiang province.
In a 15-minute interview released online that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) media wing, the group's emir, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, answered a range of questions about the ongoing negotiations between the TTP and the Pakistani government, warning that if the talks do not succeed, "sacred jihad" will continue against the Pakistani armed forces.
In a hard-hitting response to Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah's statement that negotiations between the government and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or Movement of Pakistani Taliban) are being held under the constitution of Pakistan, the TTP said they do not accept the "self-created," i.e., man-made, constitution of Pakistan in which the shari'a of Allah could not become a law, or will have to go through voting by humans to become law.
Despite their ideological differences, a group of hitherto secular Baluchi separatists, who are fighting for the independence of Baluchistan from Pakistan, has joined the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or Movement of Pakistani Taliban).
