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 June 13, 2024, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) warned Arab, local, and foreign nations against supporting a U.S.-backed "day after" plan for Gaza, or else they will face the Palestinian resistance.
On June 15, 2024, the pro-Hizbullah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published an article about a visit to Iraq by Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani on June 13-14, during which, among others, he met with senior officials from factions in the country that are members of the Islamic resistance in Iraq.
On June 16, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published an Arabic-language transcription of a speech delivered by Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Diriye aka Abu 'Ubaydah Ahmad 'Umar in honor of Eid Al-Adha.
On June 14, 2024, the pro-Taliban accounts on social media shared the annual message of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada in which he greets people on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, the three-day Feast of Sacrifice that this year was celebrated on June 17.
Issue 62 of the Balagh monthly magazine, which was published on June 15, 2024, focuses on the war between Hamas and other Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip against Israel that has been ongoing since October 2023.
Houthi Ansar Allah Movement Claims Three Attacks On Ships In Red And Arabian Seas
On June 14, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed that its forces had carried out three military operations during the previous 24 hours.
On June 6-12, 2024, for the first time, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) and the Islamic Resistance in Iraq (an Iran-backed group of Iraqi militias) claimed responsibility for four joint missile and drone attacks on two targets at the Haifa Port in northern Israel and on two additional targets, one in Haifa, and one in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod.
On June 16, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for three drone and missile attacks on an "American destroyer" and on two commercial vessels in the Red Sea and the Arabian Sea.
In May-June 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed it had arrested a ring of spies who provided information to "American and Israeli intelligence services," and published videotaped "confessions" by the accused spies.
On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and its Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals and five entities that have facilitated weapons procurement for Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement, a.k.a. the Houthis, including the transfer into Yemen of cruise missile components, manufacturing equipment, and materials that enabled Houthi forces to manufacture advanced conventional weapons, which are currently being used to conduct terrorist attacks against commercial ships.
On June 13, 2024, the Iran-backed Lebanese Hizbullah issued a statement claiming it had targeted the Israeli "Al-Raheb" position on the Lebanese border, also known as Mount Rahav, using heavy machine guns and artillery shells, scoring direct hits on the targets.
Website Linked To Lebanese Hizbullah Counts Attacks Against Israel By Other Iran-Backed Groups
On June 13, 2024, a news website affiliated with Hizbullah provided a tally of attacks conducted by some of Iran-backed militias against Israel.
On June 18, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with Lebanese Hizbullah published a nine-minute and 31-second video featuring footage gathered from its surveillance aircraft showing locations in Israel, including the city of Haifa's sea and air ports.
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On June 18, 2024, a media outlet linked to Lebanese Hizbullah published on Telegram a short video depicting attacks on Tel Aviv, Israel, and featuring an excerpt from a speech by Lebanese Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Pro-Lebanese Hizbullah Outlet Releases Video Threatening Attacks On Alleged Israeli Nuclear Sites
On June 18, 2024, a media outlet affiliated with Lebanese Hizbullah released a short video threatening Israeli nuclear site.
On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of State designated Iraq’s Iran-backed Ansar Allah Al-Awfiya’ Movement militia as "Specially Designated Global Terrorists" (SDGT).
On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Department of State designated Iraq-based, Iran-aligned militia, Ansar Allah Al-Awfiya Movement, and the group's Secretary General Haydar Muzhir Ma'lak Al-Sa'idi Al-Gharawi as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT).
Islamic Resistance In Iraq Claims Attack On Israeli Air Base in Haifa
On June 14, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella organization consisting of several Iran-backed militias, claimed that its mujahideen targeted, at dawn on that same day, the Ramat David Air Base in Israel.
On June 14, 2024, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia released a statement on its Telegram channel claiming responsibility for a same-day drone attack against an Israeli air force base.
On June 1, 2024, U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) reported that on the previous day its forces had launched an airstrike in Somalia that targeted Islamic State (ISIS) operatives.
On the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, the Islamic State (ISIS) shared several photosets documenting its fighters in West Africa, Iraq and Sahel provinces celebrating. All the operatives shown have had their faces digitally blurred.
In recent days, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) has continued its attacks on Christian civilians in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
On June 14, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 447 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
On June 16, 2024, six inmates at a detention center in Russia, who reportedly had ties to the Islamic State (ISIS), took hostage two of the facility's staff, prompting a standoff with security forces.
In recent days, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) published statements claiming attacks on Christian civilians and Congolese armed forces in Lubero territory, in the North-Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
A cover article in an English-language monthly magazine published by a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), calls Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "staunch enemy of Islam" and urges Indian Muslims to avenge insults to Muslim leaders by the politicians of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
A cover article in an English-language monthly magazine published by a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), which defines itself as a supporting entity for the Islamic State (ISIS), calls Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi the "staunch enemy of Islam" and urges Indian Muslims to avenge insults to Muslim leaders by the politicians of his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
On June 13, 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 a statement in Arabic accusing the "Sahel coalition countries" of continuing their "series of attacks" against innocent civilians.
On June 16, 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 a statement claiming a large-scale GSIM attack in Burkina Faso.
On June 17, 2024, several Syrian jihadi outlets on Telegram reported that a commander and senior religious figure in Al-Qaeda's defunct affiliate in Syria, Hurras Al-Din, has been released after spending four years in prison by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS).
Al-Qaeda Affiliate GSIM Publishes Photoset Documenting Eid Celebration In Mali's Macina Region
On June 18, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM), released a photoset documenting at least five groups of fighters celebrating Eid Al-Adha "on the front lines" in Mali's Macina region.
On June 18, 2024, the multimedia arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a one-hour video titled "How Can We Be Content With Abandoning Jihad?"
On June 9, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet began circulating a series of Arabic-language posters encouraging lone operatives to carry out armed attacks against individuals and infrastructure in the West.
Idlib-Based Store Selling Military Gear, Linked To Military Training Groups Run By Foreign Fighters
On June 17, 2024, the official outlet of Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) released a photoset showing the leadership of the group's elite Red Headbands and Khalid bin Al-Walid Battalion paying a visit to military wing head Murhaf Abu Qusrah aka Abu Al-Hasan Al-Hamawi and other military leadership.
Recently, the Urdu-language website of the Afghan Taliban published an article criticizing a Fox News report critical of the Taliban government for banning girls' education and for other such policies.
On June 12, 2024, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan published a Pashtu-language article criticizes Islamic countries and the Afghan Taliban of failing to intervene in the Gaza war.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) has released a new video featuring mujahideen formations in mountainous areas along the porous Pak-Afghan border region.
In an Urdu-language article, a website connected to the intelligence department of the Afghan Taliban laments that the Islamic Ummah has abandoned the militarized traditions of Islam.
On May 2, 2024, the spokesperson of the General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI, the Afghan Taliban's espionage agency), posted a series of three video clips of GDI's Deputy Director Al-Hajj Mullah Rahmatullah Najeeb in which he tells a gathering that the anti-Taliban resistance groups are fighting to establish democracy in Afghanistan.
On June 5, 2024, a pro-Afghan Taliban account on X released a Dari-language video featuring Mullah Abdul Qadir Hami, a supporter of the Afghan Taliban and a prominent preacher in northern Afghanistan.
On April 30, 2024, an Afghan channel on YouTube released a Dari-language video in which Islamic cleric Mawlawi Yahya Annabi of Panjshir province in Afghanistan preaches, apparently delivering a sermon in a mosque, violence against non-Muslims.
On May 16, 2024, the Afghanistan branch of the global Islamist organization Hizb-ut-Tahri issued a statement, which it translated into English, rejecting Iranian government's move to fence the border with Afghanistan in order to prevent Afghan youths from entering Iran for work.
