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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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban), which came to power as a result of the 2020 Doha Agreement signed with the U.S. during former president Donald Trump's first term, reacted to Trump's electoral victory, saying that it is hopeful for constructive relations with the U.S."
Over the past few days, jihadis continued to comment on the outcome of the U.S. elections, focusing on the recent announcements made by President-elect Donald Trump regarding the people who will serve in his cabinet, and how his picks would shape his foreign policy towards the Middle East.
On November 8, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the violent attacks against Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, calling them a "horrific anti-Semitic incident."
On November 7, 2024, following a UEFA Europa League soccer match in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv and Dutch club AFC Ajax, Maccabi Tel Aviv fans were subjected to a series of attacks.
On November 8, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media group devoted to producing nasheeds, i.e., unaccompanied vocal music popular with jihadis, released a three-minute nashid titled "Pure Terrorism." The song's Arabic-language lyrics incite attacks using machine guns, knives, vehicles, and explosives, especially in Germany.
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On November 6, 2024, Gazan Salafi cleric Salman Al-Dayah, a professor of Islamic jurisprudence and the former dean of the faculty of shari'a and law at Gaza's Islamic University, published six essays.
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On October 31, 2024, the anti-Iranian armed group Jaish Al-Adl organization released on its official Telegram channel a Farsi-language statement criticizing the UN Security Council for issuing a statement against the "defensive jihad" of the Sunni Muslims of Balochistan province against the Shi'ite government of Iran.
On October 26, 2024, several Telegram channels affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq shared a statement from a new organization called "The Islamic Resistance in the Land of the Two Holy Sites [i.e., Saudi Arabia]."
On November 12, 2024, a Telegram channel posted 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).
Hizbullah Claims Attack Against Tel Nof Airbase In Central Israel Using New "Fadi-6" Missile
On November 12, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah released a statement claiming a same-day attack against the Tel Nof airbase, near the central Israeli town of Rehovot, using "qualitative missiles."
On November 11, 2024, a Telegram channel, which is affiliated with the opposition to the Saudi regime, reported the death of Dr. 'Imran Ahmad Al-Mughassil aka 'Imran Karim, in an Israeli Air Force attack in South Lebanon.
On November 9, 2024 – following the appointment of sheikh Na'im Qassem as Hizbullah's new secretary-general on October 29, 2024 – the organization posted an approximately three-minute video on its Telegram channels titled, "Message from the Islamic Resistance Fighters to Hizbullah Secretary-General, Sheikh Na'im Qassem."
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A Lebanese daily reported that the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Jama'ah Islamiyah (JI) and its armed wing, the Al-Fajr Forces, have withdrawn from fighting in Lebanon for over four months.
On November 8, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for a missile attack on an Israeli Air Force base in southern Israel, and for what it alleged was the twelfth interception of "an American MQ-9 aircraft" in the airspace above Yemen's Al-Jawf Governorate.
In One Week, Iran-Backed Islamic Resistance In Iraq Claims 32 Drone Attacks Against Israel
From November 5-12, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued dozens of statements claiming responsibility for 32 separate attacks targeting northern and southern regions in Israel.
On November 13, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published seven statements claiming that Al-Shabab operatives had executed multiple attacks, one of which targeted a military vehicle headed towards Baledogle Airfield, which houses U.S. forces.
On November 10, 2024, the Shahada News Agency, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a statement claiming that Al-Shabab operatives assaulted a military base of Somali government militias in the town of Masagaway, Somalia's Galgudud province, killing five soldiers and wounding two.
On November 5-9, 2024, 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), published statements claiming responsibility for eight separate attacks against armed forces in Burkina Faso, and Malian troops and Wagner Group allies in neighboring Mali.
In recent days, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has continued to issue claims of responsibility for attacks on United Arab Emirates (UAE)-backed forces in Yemen.
On November 8, 2024, the Al-Andalus Foundation, the official media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), released the 11th episode of its video series "Enlightening the Minds about the Apostasy of Algeria's Rulers," featuring a 13-minute audio message in Arabic from senior AQIM member Abu Yasir Al-Jaza'iri, along with a five-page transcript.
An anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on the Al-Qaeda-operated Rocket.Chat server criticized what it described as the "declining quality" of ISIS's weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
On November 2, 2024, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) said that on October 31, its fighters attacked the Christian village of Shalta, in Nigeria's Borno state, killing one Christian and causing the rest to flee.
On November 10, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) Sahel Province claimed that on November 7, its fighters clashed with patrols of "the apostate Al-Qaeda militia" near the town of Titabé in Burkina Faso's Yagha Province, close to the border with Niger. Using "various types of weapons," the ISIS fighters killed nine members of Al-Qaeda affiliate Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), wounding others and causing the rest to flee, and capturing weapons and ammunition.
On November 7, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 468 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which featured an editorial titled: "They Are the Enemy, So Beware of Them."
On November 7, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 468 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'. The issue featured an article disclosing "exclusive" details on an operation executed by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) in Uganda, during which an ISIS prisoner was freed from captivity.
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The cover article in the latest issue of the "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), argues that despite the West's claims that the Islamic State (ISIS) has been defeated, it has fighters in various in Europe, America, and Asia.
On November 11, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet published a poster on the ISIS-operated Rocket.Chat server, which incited the group's supporters to wage jihad in India, noting that it is the "only method to bring about an enduring solution to the world's turmoil."
Gaza-Based Media Outlet Solicits Cryptocurrency Donations
On November 13, 2024, a pro-Hamas Telegram channel shared a post soliciting donations in Bitcoin and Tether (USDT) cryptocurrencies.
The Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) released a six-minute video showing its fighters engaged in combat and training exercises in Syria.
Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) Releases Song Vowing To Reconquer East Turkestan From China
On November 12, 2024, an official media outlet of the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), a Uyghur jihadi group active in Afghanistan and northwestern Syria, released a video nasheed in the Uyghur language, with subtitles in Arabic and Turkish, titled "We Are Not Afraid."
Syria-Based Ahrar Al-Sham Announces Recruitment Drive
On November 8, 2024, Syria-based jihadi Ahrar Al-Sham Movement announced that it was recruiting fighters.
In an Urdu-language statement, former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Ehsanullah Ehsan, who is now based in Turkey, has accused the TTP emir, Mufti Abu Asim Mansoor, also known as Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud, of following "nationalistic" policies focused on Pakistan.
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On October 28, 2024, the X (formerly Twitter) account of Hafiza Aisha Siddiqi published a Dari-language video of herself addressing a group of female students. In the film, she was teaching them how mothers should prepare their sons and daughters for jihad.
In a press statement, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan, the Afghan branch of the global Islamist organization by the same name, recently accused the U.S. of sowing division within the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to further its strategic goals in the region.
On October 27, 2024, Zaman News of Afghanistan published a Pashtu-language statement from a new organization called the Al-Ribat Front of Afghanistan declaring armed jihad against the Afghan Taliban regime as well as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and the Islamic State (ISIS).
In a recent editorial, the Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Mashriq warned that the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) have returned to the Tirah Valley of the Khyber district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, openly challenging the authority of the state of Pakistan despite ongoing security operations, including drone strikes.
In a recent editorial, Pakistan's leading Urdu daily Roznama Mashriq warned that the increasing terror attacks in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces of Pakistan are fueled by jihadi terrorists obtaining modern weapons left by the U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Editorials in two Pakistani dailies examined the recent surge in terrorist attacks in Pakistan, especially discussing how terror attacks are now occurring not only in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where they have historically been most common, but also in Sindh and Punjab.
