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 March 2, 2022, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq, published photos documenting a billboard allegedly located in one of Baghdad's main streets, showing Russian President Vladimir Putin with the English text "We Support Russia."
On March 4, 2022, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 328 of its weekly newspaper Al-Naba', which included an editorial arguing that the Russia-Ukraine war is part of the enmity between Christians that was described in the Qur'an.
A one-page statement in the latest issue of Al-Qaeda's Urdu-language magazine Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind (The Voice of the Battle of India) says that America's refusal to enter the Ukraine war is due to the Taliban mujahideen's defeat of America in Afghanistan.
EXCLUSIVE: Jihadis Discuss Ruling On Deploying Mujahideen To Fight Russia In Ukraine
Since shortly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, jihadis and jihadi clerics on social media have been discussing the religious ground for mujahideen participation in the fight against Russia.
On February 28, 2022, in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a pro-Al-Qaeda outlet criticized Turkey for supporting Ukraine by forbidding Russian ships from passing through the Bosporus and the Dardanelles Straits, while accusing Turkey of allowing Russian vessels to pass through the Bosporus and support the Syria regime for many years.
On March 7, 2022, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet published a poster titled, "Two Calls to Arms and Two Opinions among the People!" The poster shows an image of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky wearing military gear at top, and a jihadi cleric at bottom.
Following the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many jihadis, including supporters of Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS), maintain that it's in the Muslim interest that the fighting in Ukraine goes on for a long time.
On March 5, 2022, a charity organization operating in Idlib, Syria, which is largely controlled by the jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), published a 137-page booklet titled "Leaves From Syria's Spring; The Memoir of A Muhajir" (an immigrant, i.e. a foreign fighter).
Issue 328 of the Islamic State (ISIS) Al-Naba' weekly magazine, published on March 3, 2022, includes extensive coverage of the activities of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Nigeria and the Sahel countries of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso.
Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) Claims Attack In Mali, First Since June 2021
On March 2, 2022, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) claimed that its fighters perpetrated an attack on February 17 in eastern Mali.
Issue 328 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly magazine, Al-Naba' contains extensive coverage of the activities of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Nigeria and the Sahel countries of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso. The magazine's cover article is titled "More than 40 Killed and Wounded from the Nigerian Army."
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) Claims Suicide Attack On Shi'ite Mosque in Peshawar
On March 4, 2022, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for a suicide attack inside a Shi'ite mosque in Peshawar, in northwest Pakistan, perpetrated earlier on the same day.
On March 8, 2022, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for the second suicide attack in the space of a week in Pakistan, this time against a group of military and police forces in Balochistan, in southwest Pakistan.
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The latest issue of Al-Qaeda's Urdu-language magazine Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind ("The Voice of the Battle of India") celebrates the young Indian woman Muskan Khan, who stood up to a group of extremist Hindu activists who were harassing her for wearing the hijab on a college campus in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
An interview published in the latest issue of Al-Qaeda's Urdu-language magazine Nawa-i-Ghazwa-e-Hind ("The Voice of the Battle of India") reveals that an Australian freed in Afghanistan in exchange for several Taliban commanders, wants to return to Afghanistan.
On March 4, 2022, an Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) operative perpetrated a suicide attack in the Shi'ite Kucha Risalda Mosque in Peshawar, in northern Pakistan, during Friday prayers. The leaders of the Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq condemned the incident and used it as a justification to attack Saudi Arabia, claiming that the country finances the organization and provides it with moral support.
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In early March 2022, the Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily, which is affiliated with Hizbullah, wrote that "a new 'hurricane' seems to be raging over the capitals of the countries of the Saudi-UAE coalition, and especially over their oil facilities, this time in response to the tightening of the blockade by the Arab Coalition [To Restore Legitimacy In Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia] against bringing in oil products through the Al-Hudaydah Port.
On February 28, 2022, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2624, according to which the sanctions imposed on the Houthi Ansar Allah movement in 2014, will be extended for an additional year. As expected, the Houthis rejected the resolution.
On March 7, 2022, the official spokesman of the Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite group Al-Nujaba' Movement delivered a speech in which he vowed to continue targeting U.S. forces in Iraq "as long as the U.S. does not respect Iraq's sovereignty."
Iran-Backed Militia Warns Of 'Hunger Revolution' In Iraq As Food Prices Soar
On March 8, 2022, the Iran-backed Hizbullah Brigades warned the Iraqi Government that it will face an uprising unless it redresses the grievances of the poor and distributes ration cards. The message came as protests broke out in the country's southern governorates over rising food prices.
On March 10, 2022, the Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily reported that Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (Group for Support of Islam and Muslims - GSIM) published a short statement which denies that the man responsible for finance and logistics in GSIM was killed in a French Army attack.
On March 8, 2022, a Jordanian jihadi ideologue and Al-Qaeda supporter quoted a February 27, 2022 tweet from the secretary-general of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), in which he calls for a halt to the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.
On March 2, 2022 a former Jabhat Al-Nusra (JN) commander published a post rejecting the recently published report that claimed that a prominent Al-Qaeda ideologue was executed in November 2011.
On March 7, 2022, a channel on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.Chat server, which is opposed the Islamic State (ISIS), published a post offering commentary on a recent report published in ISIS's official weekly newspaper, Al-Naba', containing belated claims of responsibility for multiple operations in the Sahel countries of Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso in recent months.
On March 2, 2022, an unofficial pro-Al-Qaeda media organization released English and Burmese translations of a video titled "Muslims in India are on the Verge of Being Victims of Genocide! (2)"
On March 4, 2022, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet released a nine-minute video titled "Apologize To Your Lord," which discusses the alleged "un-Islamic" actions of the Saudi royal family, carried out both locally and globally.
On March 7, 2022, an initiative for Muslim prisoners, which has been endorsed by pro-Islamic State (ISIS) figures, released the third special Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr issue of its English-language magazine.
Pro-ISIS Media Outlet Releases Poster Showing 'Correct Shari'a Veil [Burqa]' For Muslim Women
A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet published an Urdu translation of a four-page brochure originally released by an official ISIS outlet, titled "Your Chastity Is In Your Hijab."
On March 3, 2022, a pro-ISIS outlet published an article on its Telegram channel describing the suffering of female ISIS prisoners being held at the Al-Hol and Al-Roj detention camps in northeastern Syria, and asserting that ISIS is and will continue to work toward their release.
An article in the latest issue of Sawt Al-Hind (Voice of India), an English-language jihadi magazine published by the supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) in India, urges Muslim women in India not to abandon the hijab, after extremist Hindu groups prevented hijab-wearing women from entering colleges and examination centers. Images in the magazine show hijab-wearing jihadi women shooters.
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On March 5, 2022, a prominent jihadi cleric of Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) said Ukrainian Muslims should form a political body to safeguard their interests in post-war Ukraine, regardless of the conflict's outcome.
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On March 2, 2022, a three-day art exhibition titled "No to Underage Marriage" opened in the Idlib region in northern Syria, in an area controlled by the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA). The exhibition was organized by the Women's Voice association, in collaboration with the Syrian Youth Network, and is sponsored inter alia by the evangelical World Vision International (WVI) organization, which promotes "social change," with focus on children.
On March 3, 2022, a Syria-based American jihadi reporter conducted a live-streamed interview with a British-Pakistani former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, who condemned the UK for labeling Muslims who fight against various occupations as terrorists, while allowing its own citizens to fight against Russian forces in Ukraine.
First Photographs Emerge Of Afghan Taliban Interior Minister Who Is On FBI Most Wanted List
First photographs have emerged of the dreaded jihadi terror commander the head of the Afghan Taliban's Haqqani Network and now the acting interior minister of Afghanistan.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP or the Movement of the Pakistani Taliban) released a video featuring its fighters training in an undisclosed location along the mountainous Pak-Afghan border. The video was uploaded on February 24, 2022 to the San Francisco-based Internet Archive (archive.org).
Following are details of some terror attacks claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Movement of Pakistani Taliban) during the week ending March 6, 2022.
In a report released online, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP, or the Movement of the Pakistani Taliban) claimed to have killed 36 members of Pakistani security forces in separate attacks in February 2022.
