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 November 14, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 469 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which featured an editorial titled: "Alas, Those Who Reject Allah Will Assuredly Never Prosper."
On November 14, 2024, Abdul Malik Badruldeen Al-Houthi, the leader of Iran-backed Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis), addressed the outcome of the U.S. presidential elections in his weekly televised speech. Al-Houthi emphasized that his group would not abandon its commitment to the war against Israel.
Afghan daily Etilaat Roz published on October 31, 2024, a comprehensive Dari-language study, examining how Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada has been speedily curtailing the role of rivals like Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani and his loyalists by enforcing a strict version of shari'a and elevating his own loyalists.
A Dari-language review of dozens of TikTok accounts from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and other countries has revealed that TikTok has become a popular platform among jihadis for sharing videos, photos, and audio content due to its user-friendly nature.
An English-language Salafi-jihadi Telegram channel recommended that its followers join the Bluesky social media platform.
A Lebanese daily newspaper reported that Lebanon's visa-free entry program for Yemeni nationals has facilitated the flow of Houthi fighters coming to Lebanon to fight against Israeli forces.
On November 19, 2024, a Syrian opposition-affiliated website that covers the Deir Al-Zour region in northeastern Syria reported that according to an "exclusive source," Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was training about 30 operatives in the operation of drones in the desert of Mu'ayzilah, near Al-Bukamal, southeast of Deir Al-Zour.
On November 5, 2024, an X (formerly Twitter) user published a Pashtu-language message stating that the martyrdom of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an Israeli attack sends a powerful message to the soldiers of the Islamic Ummah, and urged Muslims to "trample the borders" and join jihad against Israel.
Former Syrian Diplomat Claims Houthis Are Enrolled In Military Academy In Homs, Syria
On November 12, 2024, a Syrian dissident shared on his X account a screenshot of a Facebook post featuring photos of Yemeni cadets affiliated with Iran-backed Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) during a graduation ceremony.
Between November 11 and 16, 2024, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for two attacks, one employing drones and one employing missiles, on targets in central and southern Israel; an attack on the U.S. aircraft carrier the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea; and an attack on two American destroyers in the Red Sea.
On November 14, 2024, the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat published an article reporting that Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis) had enrolled "hundreds" of African immigrants in Houthi military mobilization camps in the capital Sanaa and its outskirts, as part of "recruitment campaigns targeting all groups" aimed at bolstering the group's fighting for the "liberation" of Palestine.
On November 19, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) and its official media, continued criticism of Al-Saud, the ruling family of Saudi Arabia, over the organization of the lavish "Riyadh Season," a massive festival that runs through March 2025, amid war in the Gaza Strip and south Lebanon.
On November 16, 2024, the Saudi Tourism Authority launched a new season of the Riyadh Season festival, an annual hub for cultural, sports, and entertainment events – one of the liberal reforms introduced by Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman.
On November 19, 2024, a week after issuing a similar report, the Hizbullah Military Media Telegram channel published a report from the Islamic Resistance Operations Room in which it provided a summary of what it described as recent developments in The Battle of the Formidable Might (Hizbullah’s name for its current war against Israel).
Lebanese Hizbullah Secretary-General Naim Qassem addressed a letter to the group's operatives, praising their efforts and encouraging them to remain steadfast in battle.
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On November 20, 2024, the Secretary-General of Lebanese Hizbullah, Naim Qassem, delivered a televised speech in which he said that his group submitted its response to the American proposal for ceasefire with Israel to the U.S. Envoy, Amos Hochstein.
On November 4, 2024, the Istanbul-based Syria.tv network, which supports the Syrian opposition, reported that Lebanese drug lords linked to Hizbullah and listed on U.S. Treasury's OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, have moved to resume operations in Syria following the breakout of hostilities between Israel and Lebanese Hizbullah in southern Lebanon.
On November 17, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah confirmed that its Director of Public Relations had been killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut.
On November 19, 2024, Iraqi Shi'ite populist cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) in which he called on the legislative and executive authorities in Iraq to ban importing goods from countries that support Israel.
Qatari Daily: Factions Belonging To Islamic Resistance In Iraq Attack Israel From Syria
On November 17, 2024, a London-based Qatari daily published “an exclusive” report stating that the recent attacks on Israel by factions belonging to the Islamic Resistance in Iraq group emanated from Syrian territory, and not from Iraq.
From November 13-18, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued dozens of statements claiming responsibility for 17 separate drone attacks targeting Israel.
On November 17, 2024, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia leader issued a press release with two photos on his Telegram channel. The release highlighted a same-day meeting he had held with the Russian ambassador to Iraq, Elbrus Kutrashev.
On November 19, 2024, an Iran-backed Iraqi militia released a statement claiming responsibility for a same day drone attack targeting Eilat, Israel.
On November 20, 2024, an official Telegram channel linked to Iraq's Hizbullah shared a post featuring Q&As with the Secretary General of the group regarding the ongoing American efforts to reach a ceasefire between the Lebanse Hizbullah and Israel.
On November 17, 2024, the Islamic State's (ISIS) official A'maq News Agency reported that its operatives carried out an IED attack against a vehicle belonging to what the agency called a "joint force" of the Iraqi army and Kurdistan region's Peshmerga forces in Iraq's Salah Al-Din Governorate.
On November 18, 2024, an anti-ISIS channel on an Al-Qaeda-operated server announced the launch of a new series revealing facts about ISIS media operatives in the group's various provinces.
On November 14, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 469 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'. The issue featured five reports, three of which included "exclusive" photos and details of attacks carried out by the group's "Provinces" in Nigeria, Mozambique, and African Sahel.
On November 17, 2024, the Islamic State's (ISIS) official A'maq News Agency published a statement claiming that according to "military sources," ISIS operatives had assaulted a Nigerian army camp the previous day in Karetu, Nigeria's Borno state, using "various weapons."
On November 19, 2024, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) issued a statement claiming that on November 18, its operatives had clashed with a Nigerian army patrol, using machine guns, near Najila village in Borno state. Nigerian soldiers were able to flee the scene, while ISWAP fighters seized seven motorcycles and ammunition, according to the statement.
On November 18, 2024, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) published a statement claiming that operatives of the group had assaulted a concentration of "militias allied with the Mozambican army" in the Christian village of Nacuale, in the Ancuabe district of Mozambique's Cabo Delgado province, using machine guns, on November 16.
On October 28, 2024, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) released a Dari-language book in which its author discusses the rules for management of the Islamic State and its fighters and advises on how the state should be governed.
An article in the latest issue of 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), is based on an interview with an Algerian jihadi fighter who encourages Muslims to join jihad.
In a Dari-language book, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) declares the Afghan Taliban to be apostates, arguing that they came to power in Kabul not by fighting jihad but peacefully, through the Doha Agreement signed with the United States.
A Dari-language book published by a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) accuses Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) of opposing the revival of the Islamic caliphate and dismisses TTP as a nationalist organization.
On November 12, 2024, British media reported that a 19-year-old teacher at an Islamic Sunday school, Dzhamilya Timaeva from the London suburb of Windsor, had gone on trial on charges of disseminating terrorist publications and possessing a document for terrorist purposes, after she printed a children's textbook and planned to teach it to children.
On November 17, 2024, a pro-ISIS media outlet published a lengthy essay arguing that many parties in the Muslim world sold their conscience in the U.S. "propaganda market" as a result of U.S. elections, and that Muslims must shake off humiliation and "malicious propaganda" and join ISIS's "unconquerable" caliphate fortress.
On November 14, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel along with the official mobile app of the group, published an infographic summarizing the results of GSIM operations carried out during the Islamic month of Rabi' Al-Thani 1446, which lasted from October 4 to November 2, 2024.
In a November 15, 2024 statement, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed a "complex ambush" against UAE-backed forces between Al-Surrah and Al-Furayd, in Yemen’s Abyan Governorate.
On November 17, 2024, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a 32-minute video, the third installment in the series "Deaths of the Traitors."
The media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel released three statements claiming responsibility for attacks in Niger, from the end of October to November 18, 2024.
A pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet released an infographic detailing the results of operations conducted by three African affiliates of Al-Qaeda since November 3, 2024.
In a report from November 19, 2024, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a Syrian opposition outlet, counted 89 attacks by Iran-backed groups on American bases in Syria since the start of 2024.
On November 13, 2024, Telegram channels affiliated with the largest jihadi group in Syria, Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), reported on the execution of three members of the group who had been accused of affiliation with the Islamic State (ISIS) and involvement in the suicide operation that killed an HTS leader.
In its Urdu-language single-page bulletin, Manzil, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) warns the residents of Swat district not to join the militias formed by the Pakistani military, saying they "only benefit the [military] establishment, and the oppressive army imposed on the country."
A website affiliated with Afghan Taliban intelligence recently published an article written by Karachi-based Islamic religious scholar Mufti Abu Harith in which he argues that Pakistan is facing a situation similar to the last days of the Ashraf Ghani government in Kabul.
