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 October 29, 2020, Ansar Al-Mahdi In Tunis And Arab Maghreb claimed responsibility in a video for the attack that day in which a jihadi killed three people in a church in Nice, France.
On October 25, 2020, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated media outlet urged Muslims in France to mobilize in light of what it describes as the country's war on Islam.
On October 27, 2020, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet released its quarterly magazine, which included an article praising the 18-year-old Russian-born refugee of Chechen descent who beheaded history teacher Samuel Paty in a Paris suburb on October 16, 2020.
A poster shared by a pro-ISIS user on Rocket.Chat praised the man who beheaded French schoolteacher Samuel Paty and posted image of him holding a bloody knife and standing on a French flag.
October 29, 2020, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel published a post accusing France of insulting the Prophet Muhammad and waging war on Islam. The post threatened that France will remain on ISIS's list of top targets.
EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Supporters On Rocket.chat Celebrate Attacks On French Citizens
On October 29, 2020, several pro-Islamic State (ISIS) users of the encrypted messaging platform Rocket.chat posted messages celebrating recent attacks on French citizens and praising the attackers.
Jihadis on Facebook are reacting to French President Emmanuel Macron after he defended cartoons depicting Muhammad and denounced the October 16 beheading in Paris by a jihadi terrorist of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty.
Jihadis of various affiliations have made renewed threats against the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, French President Macron, and France itself.
Pro-ISIS Video Calls For Decapitation Attacks
On October 28, 2020, a pro-ISIS media operative published a video calling for Muslims to attack Western and especially French targets to defend the honor of Muhammad.
A new issue of a magazine published by supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) threatened those who blaspheme against Muhammad.
Pro-ISIS Telegram Channel Calls For Murder Of French Muslim Cleric
On October 24, 2020, a Telegram bot operated by English-speaking supporters of the Islamic State (ISIS) called on followers to kill Hassen Chalgoumi, the imam of the Drancy mosque in Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris after he condemned the recent beheading of a history teacher.
The coverpage article in the latest issue of a magazine published by pro-Islamic State (ISIS) group questions the recent normalization of relations between the UAE and Israel.
An article in the latest issue of a magazine published by a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) group in India gives a new meaning to the Islamic concept of Da'wa ("invitation, preaching") and stresses to preachers that they should focus on the practical side too.
New Pro-Al-Qaeda Weekly Newspaper Highlights The Group's Ideology And Operations
On October 23, 2020, a pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet released its first issue of its weekly newspaper, which focuses on promoting the ideology of Al-Qaeda and highlighting its operations in Yemen, Syria, Somalia, Mali, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
On October 25, 2020, several Al-Qaeda supporters on Telegram posted eulogies for a prominent Al-Qaeda leader who was reportedly killed by Afghan forces during a special operation earlier this month.
On October 23, 2020, an Al-Qaeda supporter posted a statement on his Telegram channel eulogizing three jihadi commanders killed in a recent drone strike carried out by the international coalition on the outskirts of Idlib, Syria.
On October 22, 2020, a drone strike carried out by the U.S.-led Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS targeted a gathering northwest of Idlib, Syria, killing over a dozen people, including civilians.
On October 27, 2020, an Iran-backed Shi'ite armed group in Iraq issued a statement calling on Iraqi translators working with U.S. forces or the International Coalition to contact the group to get a permit that will allow them to continue their work and protect them from threats.
On October 21, 2020, a religious official in Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate Hurras Al-Din published a message on his Telegram channel urging the group's fighters to remain in Syria and continue to develop their military skills and preparedness, even if they are currently unable to actively wage jihad.
On October 24, 2020 a pro-Al-Qaeda Telegram channel shared five short videos showing the leader of a Mali-based Al-Qaeda affiliate welcoming members of the group who were recently released as part of a prisoner exchange deal.
A governor of Afghanistan's Faryab province has claimed that foreign jihadi fighters, including members of the Islamic State's (ISIS) Khurasan Province, have acquired surveillance drones.
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The Taliban have rejected a report in The Washington Post saying that the United States military in Afghanistan has been secretly helping the Afghan Taliban fight the Islamic State (ISIS).
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As the intra-Afghan talks in Doha remain deadlocked, Afghan Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has justified a series of terror attacks against Afghan security forces by saying that soon after Prophet Muhammad's death, the first Islamic caliph Abu Bakr Siddique waged jihad against Muslims.
