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 September 4, 2022, the official website of Hamas reported on a visit by a Hamas delegation to the embassy of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in Qatar to offer condolences for the Afghans killed in a bombing attributed to the Islamic State (ISIS) in Herat on September 2.
On August 26, 2022, a Twitter account associating itself with the Anonymous hacktivist group released a video which featured a previously unpublished photo of senior Al-Qaeda leaders in Tehran, Iran, including Sayf Al-'Adl – widely considered to be the likely successor to Ayman Al-Zawahiri.
On August 30, 2022, an anonymous pro-Al-Qaeda journalist published a blog post discussing the likely candidate to replace Al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul on July 31.
EXCLUSIVE: ISIS Claims It Killed Four Christians In Mozambique, Including Italian Nun
On September 7, 2022, ISIS claimed that its operatives in Mozambique launched an attack the day before killing four Christians, including an Italian nun who was "vigorously" promoting Christianity.
On September 7, 2022, the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) claimed its operatives had attacked the "Christian" village of Chipene, in the Memba district of the country's northeastern Nampula province, killing four Christians, including "an Italian nun who applied herself to vigorously spreading Christianity."
On September 3, 2022, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), released a three-minute video clip titled "Appeal from Director of the United Nations Office of Security and Safety in Yemen."
On September 4, 2022, a pro-ISIS outlet released a nine-minute video titled "Where are You, People of Jealousy?" calling on Muslims in Saudi Arabia to rise up and wage jihad against the government for its mistreatment of Muslim women.
On September 5, 2022, a pro-ISIS Telegram channel published an essay titled "Taliban and the Crime of Education" criticizing the Afghan Taliban's policy of forbidding girls to attend school outside the home and arguing that it has no basis in Islamic jurisprudence.
On September 1, 2022, ISIS released Issue 354 of its weekly newspaper, Al-Naba', which included claims of responsibility for attacks carried out by operatives in Sinai against Egyptian Army affiliates and government-aligned local tribesmen.
On September 1, 2022, ISIS released issue 354 of its weekly Al-Naba' magazine, which included an editorial, "One Islamic Nation," that discussed the need for unity among Muslims and called for jihad to dismantle borders.
A lead article in the latest issue of "Voice of Khurasan," an English-language monthly magazine published by the media arm of Islamic State's Khurasan Province (ISIS-K), introduces the Islamic concept of Al-Muraghamah, which it describes as the cultivation of hatred, hostility, animosity, and fighting against non-Muslims.
Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) Claims Suicide Attack Targeting Russian Embassy in Kabul
On September 5, the Islamic State in Khorasan Province (ISKP) claimed responsibility for a suicide attack at the Russian embassy in Kabul on the morning of the same day.
On September 7, 2022, the Islamic State Central African Province (ISCAP) issued a claim of responsibility for an attack carried out on September 6 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
On September 4, 2022, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) issued a claim of responsibility for an August 30 series of coordinated attacks on gatherings of Christians the DRC.
On August 30, 2022, a pro-ISIS Australian preacher published on his Telegram channel a one-minute, 20- second video with an audio excerpt from a lecture he gave in which he urged the Salafi community to unite and ignore differences for the sake of consolidating the creed of Islam.
On September 1, 2022, a pro-ISIS Telegram channel published a post urging the Sunni Muslims of Yemen's Abyan and Shabwah governorates not to take part in the ongoing conflicts between the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) and the country's internationally recognized "legitimate" government, declaring jihad as the only solution to their problems.
On September 1, 2022 the media arm of Al-Qaeda's Somali affiliate Al-Shabab, released a 14-minute video in Somali titled "Relief Campaign for Those Affected By Drought in The Islamic States – Part Five."
Al-Shabab Media Releases Part Nine Of 'Spies' Video Series In Somali Language Only
On September 6, 2022, the media arm of Al-Shabab, the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda-affiliated jihadi group, released a video titled "They Are The Enemy, So Be Aware of Them," featuring a man speaking in Somali who admitted to "spying" on the group.
On September 6, 2022, the Saudi-funded Al-Sharq Al-Awsat daily, which is based in London, published an article reporting that Al-Qaeda's Somali affiliate Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab) is threatening local tribes who have allied with the Somali government against the group.
On September 3, 2022, the media arm of Mali-based Al-Qaeda affiliate in the Sahel, the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims (GSIM) – known in Arabic as Jamaat Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimin –published a statement declaring that GSIM was ending the siege it had imposed in recent months on Boni village in the Mopti region of central Mali.
On September 5, 2022, a pro-Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) Telegram channel reported that in attendance at a graduation ceremony that day at the Military College in Idlib, northwest Syria were HTS leader Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani and the prime minister of the HTS-linked Syrian Salvation Government, 'Ali Kedah.
On August 28, 2022, Syrian Christians west of Idlib held a ceremony in the village church for the first time in ten years. The event sparked harsh criticism from jihadi clerics who claimed that Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) permitted the ceremony as part of its efforts to ingratiate itself with the West, and that it protects the Christians more than it protects the Muslims.
On September 1, 2022, a media outlet operated by a Syria-based U.S.-born jihadi reporter streamed a live interview on YouTube with a U.S.-born Daw'ah preacher based in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
Syrian Opposition Website: Iran-Backed Militias Planning Attack On U.S. Forces In Syria
On August 31, 2022, a Syrian opposition website reported that a "senior Hizbullah military official" recently visited the town of Al-Mayadin, near Syria's Deir Al-Zour Governorate, and met with officials of Iran-backed militias in the area for the purpose of establishing drone cells to attack U.S. bases around the area.
Syrian Opposition Website: IRGC Building Large Base In Eastern Syria To Hold 'Advanced Weapons'
In a September 8, 2022 "exclusive" report, a Syrian opposition website claims that Iran is establishing "a large base to hold advanced weapons" in the Deir Al-Zour area in eastern Syria.
On September 4-5, 2022, three Syrian opposition media outlets reported that Iran had utilized its operatives in Syria to establish a center for intelligence-gathering and a joint operations room with the Syrian regime in the Homs area, in the center of the country.
On September 1, 2022, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias, reported that Asa'ib Ahl Al-Haq (AAH) militia has decided to close all its offices in Iraq.
On September 1, 2022, despite warnings not to do so from the UN Mission to Support the Hudaydah Agreement (UNMHA), the Fifth Military Region Command of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement armed forces, which is based in Al-Hudaydah Governorate, held a military parade in which it displayed various types of weapons, among them surface-to-sea missiles and drones.
On August 29, 2022, media in Lebanon reported that the Lebanese General Directorate of State Security in the Nabatieh Governorate had announced the arrest of members of an ISIS cell.
On September 6, 2022, the Hizbullah-affiliated Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar reported that Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) has been removing from its leadership and rank and file jihadi figures who are not Syrian and forcing them out of the Idlib region.
On August 31, 2022, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, i.e., the Afghan Taliban, celebrated the first anniversary of the withdrawal of American and NATO forces from Afghanistan with the main ceremony being held at Bagram Airbase.
Urdu-language daily Roznama Aaj reported on August 30, 2022, that a group had bombed the clinic of one Dr. Azizullah, a resident of the Gulbahar area of Peshawar, whom they had tried to extort but who refused to pay them, according to a Pakistani newspaper.
