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 February 25, 2024, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old serviceman of the United States Air Force, died after setting himself on fire outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. Bushnell said that he was protesting "what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers" and declared that he "will no longer be complicit in genocide," then doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself on fire.
At about 10 pm on Saturday evening, March 2, 2024, a 15-year-old assailant stabbed and seriously wounded a 50-year-old Orthodox Jew, Meir Zvi Jung, in the Selnau area of Zürich, Switzerland.
On March 4, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel published a post praising the 15-year-old boy who stabbed Meir Zvi Jung, an orthodox Jew, in Zurich, Switzerland on March 2.
EXCLUSIVE: Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Meets With Chinese Ambassador To Qatar
On February 29, 2024, the head of Hamas's political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, met with Cao Xiaolin, China's Ambassador to Qatar, in Doha.
On March 4, 2024, an Al-Qaeda associate and writer published an article on his X account discussing the Saudi stance on the Hamas-Israel war.
On March 2, 2024, in a joint statement, both the Houthi Ministry of Transportation and the Houthi Maritime Affairs Authority accused the U.S. and Britain of damaging undersea cables in the Red Sea as part of the war they say the two countries are waging against Yemen.
On March 4, 2024, the Telecommunications Minister of Yemen's Ansar Allah Houthi Movement, Misfer Al-Numair, warned that submarine cable ships must obtain a permit from the Houthi Maritime Authority before conducting repairs on underwater data cables off the coast of Yemen.
On March 4, 2024, Yemen's Ansar Allah Houthi Movement claimed responsibility for the same-day attack targeting an Israeli ship in the Arabian Sea using "appropriate naval missiles," as well as launching drones and ballistic missiles targeting several U.S. warships in the Red Sea.
On March 4, 2024, the official website of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement reported that on the same day, in the Jihanah District of the Sana'a Governorate, it held "a people's military exercise" using live ammunition that simulated "face-to-face combat with the Israeli, American and British enemy."
On March 5, 2024, the armed forces of the Yemeni Houthi Ansar Allah movement claimed responsibility for targeting two American destroyers in the Red Sea with naval missiles and drones. The attacks took place just one day after Ansar Allah claimed responsibility for an attack on an "Israeli ship" in the Arabian Sea, and attacks on "several" U.S. warships in the Red Sea.
On March 6, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for an attack on the American cargo ship "True Confidence" in the Gulf of Aden, in the Red Sea.
Iranian Cybersecurity Firm Hosts Website Of Hamas's Military Wing On London Servers
The official website of Hamas's military wing, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, is hosted on the London-based servers of an Iranian cybersecurity firm, DNS records show.
The Gaza-based Al-Mujahideen Brigades militia, the military arm of The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, opened a new X account under the name Rijal Al-Wa'd Al-Maf'oul (The Men of the Warning That Was Fulfilled).
On March 4, 2024, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) issued a statement criticizing U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris for remarks she made a day earlier about the Israel-Hamas war.
On February 28, 2024, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported on its website, quoting Iraqi sources, that the Iran-backed Iraqi Al-Nujaba militia is taking advantage of the "current truce" with the Americans in order to eliminate "spies" whom it claims have provided hostile elements with information about senior officials in the country's pro-Iranian factions and their positions.
On March 3, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, published a statement claiming responsibility for a March 1 drone attack on the "chemical plant" at the Port of Haifa in northern Israel.
On March 5, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, which consists of several Iran-backed militias, claimed it launched a same-day drone attack targeting a power station at Haifa airport, Israel.
On February 29, 2024, the Islamic State Mozambique Province released a photoset documenting attacks carried out by its fighters on Christian villages in the area of Chiure, in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado region.
On February 29, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 432 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'. The issue's feature article, titled, "Kill The Eminent Among Them By All Means Available To You," argues that prophets and their followers will endure and will confront the tyranny of un-Islamic regimes.
In recent days, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) has claimed several attacks on Nigerian army forces in the Alagarno forest of Borno State, in the country's northeast, including a suicide bombing.
On February 29, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 432 of its weekly Al-Naba' magazine, which includes an article reporting, for the first time, that according to an "exclusive source," ISIS fighters launched two different attacks in the desert of Syria's Hama governorate, resulting in the killing of eight Syrian soldiers and wounding of others.
The cover article in the latest issue of "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), accuses Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of promoting his own brand of authoritarianism in Turkey and elsewhere just to stay in power, saying that "in 22 years his party has made no progress and no gains in the name of Islam, other than calling their leader the Caliph of the Muslims."
A key article in the latest issue of "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), calls Afghan Taliban emir Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada as a colonel of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistani military, accuses Afghan Taliban of misleading Muslims and Taliban rank-and-file by publishing a year-old speech of his and failing to enforce shari'a rule in Afghanistan.
On February 13, 2024, Muhammad Al-Zawahiri, a senior member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and the younger brother of slain Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, died in Giza, Egypt at the age of 71.
On March 1, 2024 the pro-Al-Qaeda Al-Nusra Media Foundation released a poster calling for lone wolf attacks in the West.
On March 6, 2024, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) issued a statement as part of its "Arrows of Truth" campaign, claiming that its fighters the same day attacked vehicles of UAE-backed Yemeni forces in Abyan Governorate.
On March 1, 2024, Al-'Askari Media, an outlet linked to the Syria-based jihadi group, Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), published an interview with a military commander in HTS's "Surveillance Detachments," to discuss the increased use of one-way suicide drones by Syrian forces as well as by the Russia and Iran-backed militias in the jihad-run Idlib region. Syrian opposition outlets claim a specialized training on the use and development of drones was launched in late 2023 and supervised by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese Hizbullah experts.
At the end of January 2024, Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), which effectively controls the rebel-held Idlib area of northwestern Syria, announced it had concluded a campaign against collaborators and spies within the group, which began several months earlier, and would release those who had not been found guilty of crimes.
The approach of the 13th anniversary of the Syrian uprising comes on the heels of rising disgruntlement among Syrians in the rebel-held Idlib area in northwestern Syria, which is effectively run by Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and a Turkey-backed, HTS-linked Syrian Salvation Government (SSG).
On February 28, 2024, a Syrian opposition website, Al-Hal Net, reported that Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Russia had formed a secret joint intelligence center, headquartered in Syria.
On March 3, 2024, the Al-Ansar Media Foundation, the official outlet of Kurdish jihadi group Ansar Al-Islam, which is active in the rebel-controlled Idlib region of northwestern Syria, published the second issue of its Al-Ansar Arabic-language magazine, dated February 2024.
In a recent Dari-language report, an Afghan newspaper examined how the Afghan Taliban government has continued to provide shelters to foreign jihadi fighters, especially in Panjshir, the traditional stronghold of the National Resistance Front (NRF) forces led by Ahmad Massoud.
On February 21, 2024, a pro-Afghan Taliban website published a Dari-language article dismissing the Islamic State (ISIS) as Khawarij (Kharijites) and accusing them of fomenting wars and disputes with the mujahideen to benefit America.
On February 29, 2024, the fourth anniversary of the Doha agreement – the official website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) published two articles celebrating the triumph and conquest of the Taliban mujahideen against the superpower America.
