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In the last few days family members, media outlets and online jihadis have commemorated U.S. citizen Osama Al-Zebda and his father, Jamal Al-Zebda, a graduate of U.S. universities. Both men were rocket engineers in the Hamas military arm, Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, and were killed in Israeli airstrikes on May 12.
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On May 26, 2021, the website of the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television channel posted an article about the military assistance that Iran grants to Hamas, which includes help in the development of missiles and booby-trapped drones.
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On May 14, 2021, the head of a Syrian jihadi group posted a "message to Jews and Muslims" on Telegram urging Palestinians to carry out suicide attacks targeting Israelis and threatening Israeli Jews.
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On May 19, 2021, a Gaza-based jihadi group released a video in which an operative called on Muslims living in Western countries to target Jewish interests and defend Muslims by spilling Jewish blood.
Naim Qassem, Hizbullah deputy secretary-general, gave an interview to the Al-Nour, Hizbullah-owned radio station in Beirut, on the occasions of the 21st anniversary of the Israeli withdrawal from South Lebanon, and the ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian factions, which went into effect on May 21, 2021.
Issue 24 of a monthly magazine, which was published by a group of independent jihadi clerics in Syria's rebel-held Idlib area on May 18, 2021, contains an article discussing how jihadis should relate to the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
Issue 287 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly magazine Al-Naba', which was published on May 20, 2021, includes an editorial discussing the current violence between Israel and the Palestinians.
Islamic State's India Province Claims Burning Of Temple Of 'Polytheist' Hindus In Kashmir's Srinagar
On May 19, 2021, the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed that its Wilyat Al-Hind, or India Province, set fire to a "famous temple of the polytheist Hindus" in Srinagar, the largest city in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir area, which is administered by India.
An article in Issue 16 of the ISIS magazine "Sawt Al-Hind" includes a photo of an ISIS flag put up outside the main gate at a central mosque in Kashmir, maybe in the capital city of Srinagar, while a message written on a second banner accompanying the flag declares: "We are fighting in Iraq and Syria and our eyes are on Al-Quds – Wilayah Hind."
In an article published in Issue 16 of the ISIS magazine Sawt Al-Hind ("Voice of India"), the Islamic State's India Province accused Pakistan-backed jihadi organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) of claiming ISIS's killing of Indian soldiers in Kashmir.
An article in the Issue 16 of the ISIS magazine Sawt Al-Hind ("The Voice of India") emphasizes the importance of freeing jihadis imprisoned across the world and calls on Muslims to support the families of such inmates.
Issue 287 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly magazine Al-Naba', published on May 20, 2021, included a report saying that ISIS fighters in Mali implemented had al-hirabah (the shari'a punishment for banditry) against three bandits after a complaint they received from Muslims there.
ISIS Weekly Publishes Part Two Of Biography Of Slain ISIS Media Head Abu Muhammad Al-Furqan
Issue 287 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly magazine Al-Naba', which was published on May 20, 2021, includes the second part of a biography of Abu Muhammad Al-Furqan, the emir of the ISIS Media Diwan and also the head of the media apparatus of its forerunner, the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI).
On May 22, 2021, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) umbrella media group released an infographic poster summarizing the activities of several pro-ISIS media outlets, as part of media campaign during Ramadan dubbed "Patience, O Muslim Female Captives."
Pro-ISIS Poster Boasts That ISIS Attacks Kill New Iraqi Officials 'Within 10 Days'
The Hadm Al-Aswar poster praises ISIS fighters for "war strategies that have no match," noting that the organization does not currently wage conventional warfare but "a war of clever ones which violently shatters the military and economic apparatus."
On May 12, 2021, an Al-Qaeda-aligned Syrian jihadi group released a statement calling on jihadi groups to exchange military and technological knowledge in aviation, rocket building, and mining and urging all Muslims to fight all Jews.
In recent weeks, Syrian opposition websites have reported that pro-Iranian Shi'ite militias stationed in eastern Syria are using archeological sites as arms warehouses, to avoid attacks.
Ansar Ghazwatul Hind (AGH), an affiliate of Al-Qaeda In The Indian subcontinent (AQIS), has released a message of greetings on Eid Al-Fitr by its emir Ghazi Khalid Ibrahim in which he laments a recent ceasefire agreed upon by Pakistan and India along the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir, and urges followers to wage jihad against India for the freedom of Kashmir.
On May 24, 2021, the media arm of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda affiliate jihadi group Al-Shabab released a video featuring a Kenyan officer who was captured in 2016 calling on Kenya's president to secure his release and the release of other Kenyan prisoners of wars (POW), urging him to end Kenyan Military intervention in Somalia.
Pro-Al-Qaeda Channel Celebrates New Coup In Mali: 'O Allah, Annihilate Them At Each Other's Hands'
On May 24, 2021, a prominent pro-Al-Qaeda Telegram channel celebrated news of a coup in Mali in which President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane were arrested and taken to a military base outside the capital Bamako on May 24.
Iraqi Resistance Factions Threaten To Escalate Attacks Against U.S. Forces
On May 22, 2021, a joint organ of the pro-Iranian Shi'ite militias in Iraq published a statement threatening to escalate the operations against the American forces in Iraq in light of the "bad and very regrettable" results of the two rounds of talks between the U.S. government and the Iraqi government and the "lack of ability" of the latter to realize the "will of the Iraqi people" and remove the American forces from the country.
On May 24, 2021, the military commander of the Iran-backed Shi'ite militia Hizbullah Brigades (KH) shared a post on his Telegram channel saying that demonstrations planned for May 25 were intended to postpone the Iraqi parliamentary elections to extend the tenure of Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi and his government.
