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In his first speech following his appointment on October 29, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem announced, in a televised speech on October 30, that he would follow in the footsteps of his predecessor, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in all political, jihadist, social, and cultural fields, and would continue to execute the war plan set up by Nasrallah.
On October 23, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah confirmed that Executive Council Chief Hashem Safieddine had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on southern Beirut in early October.
On October 29, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah's Shura [Consultative] Council appointed Sheikh Naim Qassem, a founding member of the group who has served as a deputy leader since 1991, as the group's new leader.
On October 26, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah released a one-minute, five-second video, in Hebrew and Arabic, listing 25 Israeli communities in the north of the country.
On October 26, 2024, several Telegram channels affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq shared an official statement from a new organization.
On October 26, 2024, former U.S. President Donald Trump invited several members of Michigan's Muslim community to join him onstage during a campaign rally in the state ahead of the November U.S. presidential election.
On October 27, 2024, Israeli media outlets reported that one man was killed, and 32 others were injured in a truck-ramming attack at a bus stop outside the IDF's Glilot base in central Israel, north of Tel Aviv.
On October 27, 2024, the official Military Media website of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) reported on a Houthi armed forces largescale exercise dubbed, “To Totally Disgrace You (Quran 17:7).
On October 24, 2024, Abdul Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, leader of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis), gave a speech discussing the latest regional developments in Gaza and Lebanon.
Between October 22 and 29, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed credit for a series of drone and missile attacks, including using ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and a "hypersonic missile."
The official website of the Yemeni Ansar Allah Houthi Movement released an infographic documenting attacks on British ships.
Lebanese Hizbullah Appoints Deputy Leader Naim Qassem As Group's New Leader
On October 29, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah issued a statement announcing that the group's Shura Council had appointed Sheikh Naim Qassem as the group's new leader.
On October 22, 2024, Lebanese Hizbullah's Al-Ahed News website published an article summarizing a speech by Muhammad 'Afif, the group's public relations (PR) director, during a press conference in southern Beirut.
On October 27, 2024, the Iran-backed Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades published a statement on Telegram in response to Israel's October 26 airstrikes in Iran.
On October 26, 2024, the Syrian opposition outlet Thiqa News Agency claimed that Iran-backed Iraqi militias and the Yemeni Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) are planning to send operatives to Lebanon to fight alongside Hizbullah and make up for the latter's manpower losses.
On October 29, 2024, Telegram channels affiliated with Hizbullah and Iran-backed militias in Iraq reported that for the first time in the current war between Hizbullah and Israel, an Iraqi fighter from Karbala was killed in the fighting in South Lebanon.
A media outlet supportive of Lebanese Hizbullah published an infographic tallying statistics on the group's recent attacks against Israel.
On October 30, 2024, a Lebanese Hizbullah-linked Telegram channel published the list of the group's official online accounts, noting that the group has no official accounts on Facebook, TikTok, X, or YouTube.
From October 22-28, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued dozens of statements claiming responsibility for 21 separate attacks targeting northern, central, and southern regions in Israel.
On October 27, 2024, several Telegram channels supporting Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militias reported a drone attack on the Al-Tanf base in Syria's eastern Homs governorate, near the border with Jordan and Iraq, which hosts U.S. and Free Syrian Army (FSA) forces.
On October 20, 2024, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released a three-page statement eulogizing "martyr" Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar who was killed while waging jihad and standing guard at the frontline against the "worst enemies" of Islam.
On October 25, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 466 of its weekly newsletter Al-Naba'.
On October 24, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 466 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba', which featured an editorial.
On October 23, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel shared a post claiming that soldiers who are deployed in Iraq as part of the U.S.-led Global Coalition were ambushed by the group's fighters.
On October 27, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel posted two videos reportedly showing the group's operatives in the Philippines attending a Friday sermon in a jungle.
On October 28, 2024, Al-Azaim, a media foundation linked to the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), released a poster inciting attacks against houses of worship, including temples and cathedrals such as the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.
On October 28, 2024, a pro-ISIS media group released a poster featuring an excerpt from an editorial in issue 465 of Al-Naba', ISIS's weekly newsletter, released on August 15, 2024.
On October 25, 2024, Al-Sahab, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda Central Command, released a statement in Arabic and English in which it eulogized Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, extended condolences to "the mujahideen in Gaza" on the "martyrdom of their leaders in the path of Allah," and urged Muslims to wage jihad against "Zionist-Crusader interests worldwide" and against the regimes of Arab countries.
On October 17, 2024, 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), released nine photos documenting a "da'wa [preaching, invitation to Islam] tour" in the villages of Burkina Faso along the border with Niger.
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the Sahel – the Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM) – accused the Malian Army of massacring 21 civilians during indiscriminate airstrikes in Tinzaouaten, near the Malian-Algerian border.
On October 22, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda Salafi jihadi ideologue shared on Telegram a post inciting violence against Lebanese Shi'ites displaced from southern Lebanon to Beirut and northern Lebanon because of the war between Israel and Hizbullah.
On October 24, 2024, the Syrian opposition-affiliated Euphrates Eye website reported that over the last week of September, groups of operatives from Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) arrived in the city of Al-Bukamal in eastern Syria, where they are gathering in apartments "seized" from locals until other groups of operatives arrive.
On the night of October 26, 2024, Israel's air force carried out a series of strikes against military targets in Iran, targeting "surface-to-air missile arrays and additional Iranian aerial capabilities, that were intended to restrict Israel's aerial freedom of operation in Iran," according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
On October 29, 2024, a pro-jihadi Telegram channel, which describes itself as an Islamic non-profit organization focused on assisting the Ummah through aid, medical assistance, and education, shared a poster promoting a fundraising campaign.
In recent weeks, Qatar has been mediating between the Afghan Taliban and Italy and Germany to encourage the latter to adopt a flexible approach on the issue of Afghanistan, leading to a statement from the Italian Foreign Ministry on October 27, announcing the appointment of Sabrina Ugolini as Italy's ambassador to Kabul.
In a Dari-language article, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan defines its advocacy for the implementation of "complete shari'a system," saying shari'a cannot be implemented gradually and its enforcement should be in all aspects of life, including foreign policy, economic affairs, and societal issues.
In a Dari-language booklet shared on Telegram marking the first anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attacks in Israel, Hizb-ut-Tahrir Afghanistan laments that "infidel countries" are united with Israel on the Gaza war, but Islamic countries are not aiding the Palestinians against Israel.
