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 May 7, 2023, several accounts on X (formerly Twitter) posted a statement allegedly from an Egyptian group.
On April 30, 2024, the Sanaa University Council at Yemen's Sana'a University which is controlled by the Houthi Ansar Allah movement, praised the pro-Palestinian student protests at universities in the U.S. and in Europe, and announced that it was opening its doors to every student who was expelled due to participation in such a demonstration.
On May 3, 2024, a Telegram channel affiliated with London-based Egyptian Al-Qaeda ideologue Hani Al-Siba'i, shared a video of a five-minute lecture by Al-Siba'i about the pro-Palestine student protests that have been taking place at American universities and about "the Americans' philosophy of genocide."
On May 2, 2024, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) commemorated the 13th anniversary of the killing of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
On May 1, 2024, senior members of Yemen's Ansar Allah (the Houthis) Movement posted commentary accusing the United States of attempting to draw Yemen's neighbors into a direct war on Yemen, and warning Saudi Arabia and the UAE to learn the lesson from the decade-long war on Yemen.
On May 4 and 7, 2024, Deif Allah Al-Shami, the Houthi Information Minister, government spokesman, and member of the Ansar Allah movement Political Bureau, gave two interviews, one to the media in Iran and another to the Lebanese media.
On May 3, 2024, the Armed Forces of Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), released a statement announcing the details of the fourth phase of escalation in the face of the U.S-Israeli "aggression" against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
On May 6, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah Movement (the Houthis), published a report on its official website, saying its Ministry of Defense, during the past few days, had arrested a number of spies, who were recruited by an anti-Houthi intelligence unit.
On May 8, 2024, the Lebanese Hizbullah-affiliated Al-Akhbar daily reported, citing a military source in Sanaa, that the return of the U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, and the U.S. Navy destroyer, the USS Carney, to the Red Sea represents a "new opportunity" for the naval forces affiliated with the Yemeni Ansar Allah Movement (Houthis) to carry out "humbling blows" to the U.S. Navy.
On May 9, 2024, the armed forces of the Houthi Ansar Allah movement claimed responsibility for two drone and missile attacks on two "Israeli ships" in the Gulf of Aden, and two missile attacks on a third ship (about which no details were provided), one in the Indian Ocean and the second attack on the same ship in the Arabian Sea.
On the morning of May 7, 2024, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched an operation to seize control over the Gazan side of the Rafah crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
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On May 7, 2024, a London-based Saudi daily, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, published a report citing unnamed sources within Lebanese Hizbullah and its Lebanese ally, the Amal Movement, asserting that Hizbullah had announced a general mobilization.
Iran-Backed Bahraini Al-Ashtar Companies Claim Second Drone Attack On Eilat, Israel
On May 7, 2024, Al-Ashtar Companies, which are part of Iran-backed "Islamic Resistance in Bahrain," issued a statement claiming responsibility for a May 2 drone attack, saying that they had targeted a "vital" target in Eilat, Israel's southernmost city.
On May 2, 2024, Al-Ashtar Companies, which is part of Iran-backed "Islamic Resistance in Bahrain," issued a statement claiming responsibility for a drone attack the same day against the head office of Israeli transportation company Trucknet Enterprise in Eilat, Israel's southernmost city.
On May 2-3, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella organization consisting of several Iran-backed militias in Iraq, issued three statements claiming responsibility for attacks against Israeli "vital targets" in Tel Aviv, Be'er-Sheva, and the Dead Sea, using Al-Arqab-type, Iranian-made long-range cruise missiles.
On May 5-6, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella organization consisting of several Iran-backed militias in Iraq, claimed responsibility for three missile and drone attacks against three different targets in Israeli territory.
On May 6, 2024, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed joint operations group of Iraqi militias, published 31- and 32-second videos documenting May 5 drone launches towards a military airbase in Israel's southern city of Eilat and a "Zionist military facility in our occupied lands [Israel]."
On May 6, 2024, The Global Front of Resistance Youth, a Telegram channel affiliated with Iran-backed militias and linked to a group with the same name, shared posts featuring dozens of anti-Israel, anti-U.S. slogans in English and suggested that they be used at anti-Israel student protests.
On May 7, 2024, Abu Ali Al-Askari, spokesman for the Iran-backed Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades, released a statement declaring that neither the U.S. nor the Iraqi government is serious about withdrawing U.S. forces from the country, calling to boycott U.S products, and urging the UAE, Kuwait, and Jordan to prevent the U.S. from using their territory to launch attacks inside Iraq.
On May 1, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) Mozambique Province published a photoset documenting an attack on the Christian village of Manica, in Erati District, in northern Mozambique's Nampula Province.
Issue 441 of Islamic State (ISIS) weekly magazine Al-Naba', released on May 2, 2024, contains reports of attacks and activity by the organization's African affiliates claimed for the first time.
On May 3, 2024, an anti-Islamic State (ISIS) channel on an Al-Qaeda-operated server published a post alleging that many of the unofficial social media accounts supporting ISIS are actually managed by operatives of the organization's official media bureau, noting that ironically, those operatives are occasionally accused of undermining the official media or of being spies by supporters unaware of their identities.
The latest issue of an English-language ISIS magazine carries a lead article by ISIS spokesman Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari, marking the completion of a decade since the declaration of Khilafah by the then-first ISIS emir Abu Bakr Al-Baghdad.
In recent days, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) and the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) have continued their attacks on Christian civilians.
The latest issue of "Khurasan Ghag," the Pashtu-language magazine of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), features a cover article condemning the March 18 airstrikes by Pakistan on Afghan territory and warns that the Islamic State will avenge the strikes.
On May 2, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 441 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
A pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet published a poster featuring an excerpt from a January 4, 2024 audio message by ISIS spokesperson Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari.
Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), one of the most prolific Al-Qaeda affiliates, has continued its escalation of attacks in Mali and Burkina Faso, claiming several major operations causing large numbers of casualties and capturing large quantities of military vehicles and weapons.
On May 3, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media published an essay by a Syrian jihadi.
On May 5, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda Telegram bot shared a PDF publication that it described as "the first supplement" of the third issue the pro-Al-Qaeda magazine "Incite the Believers."
On April 24, 2024, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) issued a Dari-language statement saying that the discovery of bodies, including those of women and children, at a mass grave in Khan Younis, a city in Gaza, serves as evidence of the oppression endured by the "defenseless" Palestinian people.
A Pashtu-language article published by the pro-Afghan Taliban Al-Mirsaad media accuses the West, particularly the United States, of establishing the Islamic State (ISIS) to target the mujahideen in Iraq and to use it as a tool to advance its strategic goals in the world.
On April 28, 2024, an official website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) published an article, accusing the United States and regional countries of demanding "human rights, freedom of expression, and an inclusive government" in Kabul in order to install their own personnel in the Afghan Taliban government.
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Recently, the Afghan daily Etilaat Roz published an investigative report revealing that the Afghan Taliban government has continued to shelter and support Uyghur jihadi fighters who are mostly based in Badakhshan province.
A Dari-language report by the Afghan International media outlet reveals that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) executed 1,196 suicide bombings against U.S. troops and Afghan security forces in Afghanistan over a period of two decades.
