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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A user of a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) server published a post claiming that he personally knows a person who possesses weapons and is ready to commit a suicide attack.
On November 24, 2024, Israel said that the body of an Israeli Moldovan rabbi, who had gone missing in the United Arab Emirates, had been found.
Issue 470 of Al-Naba', the official weekly magazine of the Islamic State (ISIS), which was dated November 21, 2024, contains an editorial lashing out at Saudi Arabia's rulers for hosting the Riyadh Season festival, which began this year on October 12.
On November 16, 2024, the Saudi Tourism Authority launched the annual Riyadh Season, a hub for cultural, sports, and entertainment events.
An English-language Salafi-jihadi Telegram channel advised Muslims against serving in Western and "so-called Muslim" armies if World War III breaks out.
EXCLUSIVE: Hizbullah: First Launch Of Cruise Missiles At Army Base Inside Israel
On November 21, 2024, Hizbullah claimed responsibility for a barrage of “high-quality [cruise] missiles,” in what it described as the first attack of its kind.
On October 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.
On November 21, 2024, a Syrian opposition-affiliated outlet reported that a faction supported by Lebanese Hizbullah had launched a new battalion on the northern outskirts of Aleppo.
On November 25, 2024, a pro-Hamas Telegram outlet reported that Hamas's Ministry of the Interior deployed its security unit, SAHM (Arrow), across the Gaza Strip to arrest individuals involved in "stealing" humanitarian aid and "collaborating" with Israel.
Between November 17 and 22, 2024, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for two attacks against Israel, one employing drones and one employing "a hypersonic ballistic missile," on targets in the center and south of the country.
On November 21, 2024, a London-based Saudi-funded daily newspaper published an article in English claiming that the Iran-backed Lebanese Hizbullah is struggling to cope with the war among its own base, as it tries to support over one million people displaced from Beirut's southern suburbs, south Lebanon, and the Bekaa Valley, dispersed to various parts of Lebanon, as well as to Syria and Iraq.
On November 25, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah published a propaganda video showing Hizbullah operatives who were injured in the September 17 pager attacks, purportedly back to the war, joining combat on the ground.
On November 24, 2024, Israel stated that around 250 projectiles were fired by Lebanese Hizbullah into Israel, marking one of the heaviest aerial attacks mounted against Israel since fighting in Lebanon intensified.
On November 25, 2024, a Lebanese Hizbullah-affiliated news website published a short video clip providing an overview of missiles introduced by Hizbullah during the war with Israel, dubbed by Hizbullah "Endowed With Mighty Prowess."
On November 21, 2024, Iran-backed Iraqi Sayyid Al-Shuhada Brigades militia leader, Abu Alaa Al-Walai, released, on its Telegram channel, an official statement commenting on the United States' veto of the United Nations Security Council's resolution, the previous day, that called for an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
On November 18, 2024, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar sent a letter to the President of the UN Security Council in which he called for “immediate action regarding the activity of the pro-Iranian militias in Iraq, whose territory is being used to attack Israel,” and asserted that Israel has the right to self-defense and to defend its citizens.
On November 17, 2024, a Syrian opposition-affiliated outlet reported that Iran-backed militias continue to exploit difficult economic conditions to recruit locals, including minors.
From November 19-24, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued six statements claiming responsibility for six separate drone attacks targeting Israel.
On November 21, 2024, an Iranian state-run organization that promotes "resistance" among youth published a poster in Arabic, Farsi, and English depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the top enemy of Shi'ites across the world.
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On October 25, 2024, the official website of the Iranian jihadi organization Jaish Al-Adl released a Farsi-language book examining the prevailing system of Shia religious governance in Iran and its destabilization of Sunni Muslims.
On November 21, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 470 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
On November 25, 2024, an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on an Al-Qaeda-operated server published a new post in its ongoing series about ISIS media operatives.
In two statements on November 23, 2024, the Islamic State Syria Province claimed two attacks on targets connected with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) oil industry.
On November 26, 2024, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) claimed in a statement published on Telegram that its fighters attacked a large Nigerian army camp in the town of Kukawa in Borno region on November 25.
On November 18, 2024, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) published a statement claiming that on November 16, ISMP operatives 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.
The Al-Azaim Foundation, an unofficial pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media group linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), continued to publish posters in English on the pro-ISIS Rocket Chat server, rallying lone wolves to persist in adhering to ISIS's agenda of violence, and encouraging attacks against non-Muslim interests as well as on "apostate" affiliates of the Afghan Taliban and the regime in Pakistan.
On November 20, 2024, the Al-Azaim Foundation, a media outlet linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), published a poster titled "Attention to the Muslims!" warning against contacting Telegram accounts previously used by the group.
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) Claims Ten Deaths In Attack On Sufi Shrine In Afghanistan
On November 23, 2024, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) released a statement claiming responsibility for a November 21 attack in which its fighters reportedly machine-gunned a "polytheistic shrine" often visited by "followers of the polytheistic Saifia sect," including members of the Afghan Taliban.
A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) preacher published on Telegram a three-minute video discussing what he said was a soon-to-be-aired interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), the national broadcaster of Australia.
On November 25, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet released a six-minute video.
In recent days, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, 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), has published a series of statements claiming attacks on armed forces in Mali. The attacks reportedly targeted forces of the Malian army and Russia's Wagner private military company (PMC).
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) claimed four sniper attacks and an ambush against UAE-backed forces in southern Yemen’s Abyan and Shabwah governorates, between November 16 and 20, 2024.
In the Issue 49 of its Urdu-language bulletin Manzil, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) appeals to Pashtun sentiments, accusing the Pakistani army of seizing a million acres of land in Pashtun regions, blocking the identity cards of 217,000 Pashtuns, and displacing 5.7 million people from Pashtun tribal region along the border with Afghanistan.
In an Urdu-language statement, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Pakistan argued in late October that a caliphate should be established in Pakistan so that the armies of the Islamic countries can be mobilized to resolve the Kashmir issue.
In a Pashtu-language article, a pro-Afghan Taliban website accuses the National Resistance Front (NRF) of working for Western interests in Afghanistan by fighting the Taliban.
