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On October 28, 2021, the Taliban released the latest issue of its Arabic-language magazine, which included an editorial describing the Taliban's interim government as inclusive, saying it ensures the safety and stability of the country and is aiming to bring development, prosperity, and to revive the economy.
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On October 28, 2021, the Taliban released the latest issue of its Arabic-language magazine, which included articles accusing the West of advocating for women's rights as a ploy to allow men to use women for their own pleasure.
On October 28, 2021, Telegram channels affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq shared a statement by the founder and secretary general of Harakat Hizbullah Al-Nujaba in Iraq claiming that the U.S. does not intend to withdraw its forces from Iraq, as scheduled in coordination with the Iraqi government, by the end of 2021.
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On October 26, 2021, Idlib University announced via Telegram that it had been accepted as a member of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) initiative, which "aligns institutions of higher education with the United Nations in supporting and contributing to the realization of United Nations goals and mandates, including the promotion and protection of human rights, access to education, sustainability and conflict resolution."
On November 2, 2021, the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for an attack, in which dozens were killed or wounded, on the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan National Military Hospital, the largest military hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan.
ISIS Claims Third Attack In Mogadishu During October
On October 28, 2021, the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed that its operatives detonated an IED on a vehicle belonging to the Somali army in northern Mogadishu on October 27, killing two soldiers and wounding three others.
ISIS Weekly Boasts About Attack On Shi'ite Village In Diyala, Warns More Attacks Will Follow
On October 29, 2021, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 310 of Al-Naba', the organization's weekly. The issue included an infographic discussing the October 26 armed attack on Al-Rashad village in Diyala Governorate, northeastern Iraq, which killed and wounded dozens of Shi'ite members of the Bani Tamim tribe, for which ISIS had claimed responsibility.
On October 30, 2021, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) released video that includes footage of ISWAP fighters raiding Nigerian Army positions in the northeast of the country; the execution of captured soldiers; and messages from ISWAP fighters vowing to obey Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Ibrahim Al-Hashemi, threatening the Nigerian military and those who cooperate with it, and urging locals to join ISWAP.
On October 29, 2021, the Islamic State (ISIS) released the latest issue of Al-Naba', the group's weekly newspaper. The issue included four reports and two photos that have not been disseminated through other ISIS official media outlets.
On October 28, 2021, Issue 310 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly, Al-Naba', included an editorial denouncing the Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) for waging a military campaign against foreign fighters in Syria's Turkmen Mountain area.
On October 27, 2021, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel posted an article by a prominent female ISIS supporter in which she commented on the recent offensive by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) against rival groups composed of foreign fighters in the Turkmen Mountain area, northeast of Latakia.
On October 28, 2021, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet released an infographic listing major attacks carried out by the organization's Afghan affiliate, Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), against Shi'ites in Afghanistan over the past six years (2015-2021).
A new pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channel called Kun Asadan La Takun Kharoufan (Be a Lion, Don't Be a Sheep) urges Sunni Iraqis to join ISIS and fight against the Shi'ites.
An article in the latest issue of the monthly English-language ISIS magazine "Sawt Al-Hind [the Voice of India]," which is published by Ansarul Khilafah In Hind ("the Aiders of the Caliphate in India"), criticizes Ulema-e-Soo ("the Evil Scholars") in the Islamic world for supporting the Western interpretations of jihad as terrorism.
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An article in the latest issue of the monthly English-language ISIS magazine "Sawt Al-Hind [the Voice of India]," which is published by Ansarul Khilafah In Hind ("the Aiders of the Caliphate in India"), criticizes Ulema-e-Soo ("the Evil Scholars") in the Islamic world for supporting the Western interpretations of jihad as terrorism.
In 2020, a Muslim convert living in Sydney, Australia, posted content featuring Islamic State (ISIS) executions and violent threats to Shi'ite Muslims on his Instagram account.
On November 1, 2021, the media arm of Al-Qaeda in the Arabia Peninsula (AQAP) released statements claiming responsibility for two attacks on the Iran-backed Ansar Allah (Houthis) in Yemen's Al-Bayda' govenorate.
On October 28, 2021, the pro-Al-Qaeda media outlet Bayt Al-Maqdis released Issue 22 of its quarterly magazine, Ibnat Al-Islam ("Daughter of Islam").
On November 2, 2021, a pro-Al-Qaeda and anti-Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) Telegram channel shared a "leaked" recorded conversation and video identifying locals who helped the international coalition to locate and kill a top official in the Syria-based Al-Qaeda-affiliated group Hurras Al-Din, named Abu Abdallah Al-Raqqawi, in the suburbs of Raqqa, Syria on October 22, 2021.
On October 29, 2021, the pro-Al-Qaeda (AQ) publishing house Bayt Al-Maqdis released issue 22 of Ibnat Al-Islam, the group's women's magazine.
On October 25, 2021, the Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) launched an offensive in the Turkmen Mountain range northeast of Latakia, against several groups of foreign fighters.
On October 30, 2021, On The Ground News (OGN), a media outlet run by Syria-based American jihadi reporter Bilal Abdul Kareem, published a video on YouTube raising awareness about the alleged plight of Saifullah Al-Faransi, a French foreign fighter reportedly detained by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS).
On October 31, 2021, a Syria-based Al-Qaeda supporter published a Telegram post emphasizing the effectiveness of demonstrations against jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and its leader Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani, and urging residents of Syria's Idlib region to continue to protest against HTS and its policies.
The recent (late October 2021) military operation conducted by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham against independent groups of foreign jihadi fighters in the Turkmen Mountain range, has aroused significant criticism of the organization and its leader, Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani, among jihadi elements in the Idlib area.
On October 27, 2021, an Idlib-based independent jihadi cleric published an essay on Telegram discussing what he described as the numerous about-faces of Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani.
On October 27, 2021, several Syrian jihadi Telegram channels published a statement criticizing Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) for its ongoing offensive against several independent groups of foreign fighters stationed in the Turkmen Mountain range northeast of Latakia.
On October 28, 2021, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at the company's annual conference that the holding company which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp would change its name to Meta, as part of a vision to build a "metaverse" based on virtual and augmented reality.
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On October 30, 2021, several pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Telegram channels posted the first issue of Al-Aseer (The Prisoner), an English-language monthly magazine devoted to campaigning to free imprisoned jihadi clerics, including those who have been convicted of involvement in terrorist acts.
On October 28, 2021, an Iran-backed militia in Iraq claimed that its fighters detonated IEDs targeting two U.S. logistics convoys north of Baghdad.
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On November 2, 2021, "On the Ground News" (OGN), run by U.S.-born jihadi reporter Bilal Abdul Kareem, who is based in Syria, posted an Arabic-language infographic on Telegram identifying six new Captagon factories established by Lebanese Hizbullah and Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in areas controlled by the Syrian regime.
On October 26, 2021, the Islamic State (ISIS) perpetrated an attack in the village of Al-Rashad near the city of Al-Miqdadiyah in the Diyala Governorate of Iraq, in which dozens of people were killed or injured.
On October 30, 2021, the Sabereen News Telegram channel, which supports the Iran-backed militias in Iraq, called on these militias to target trucks bringing Saudi goods into Iraq through the 'Ar'ar border crossing, just as they target the American logistics convoys around the country.
On November 1, 2021, an Iranian-backed Iraqi group released a statement threatening to attack American forces in Iraq if they don't leave the country by the end of 2021, as U.S. President Joe Biden declared.
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During the first days of November 2021, two Telegram channels which support the Iranian-backed militias in Iraq released posters which threaten the U.S. forces in Iraq.
On November 3, 2021, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) navy claimed that its speedboats intercepted a U.S. military vessel in the Gulf of Oman, which, according to Iranian media reports, was attempting to confiscate Iranian oil exports.
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On November 1, 2021, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias in Iraq published an infographic video claiming that Iranian cyber units launched a "counter-attack" on Israel following a cyber-attack that paralyzed Iran's power plants back in April 2021.
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On October 29, 2021, the Taliban, or the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, released issue 189 of its official Arabic-language magazine, Al-Somood.
In Southwestern Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban Officials Launch Monthly Magazine
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Taliban officials in Afghanistan's Farah province have launched a monthly magazine, according to an Afghan website.
In a week-long trip, Abu Mansur aka Mufti Noor Wali, who is the emir of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), visited all the divisions in the "TTP northern zone" sometime in late October 2021.
This report reviews details of attacks that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed during the week ending October 31, 2021.
Taliban Magazine: U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan Is Not A Victory
On October 28, 2021, the Taliban released issue 189 of its Arabic-language magazine, which included an article by titled "America... Between the Taliban and Japan."
