Syria

On September 13, a pro-ISIS media group called Al-Abd Al-Faqir Media released an animated video on their Telegram channel titled "Story of a Mujahid: Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani." In the 5-minute biographical video, the narrator described Al-Adnani as a scholarly man of faith who grew...

Issam Al-Zoba'i a.k.a. Abu Abd Al-Haq Al-Iraqi, the 26-year-old commander of an ISIS "strike force" in Al-Furat Province, was interviewed on Al-Arabiya TV. Al-Zoba'i, who was captured along with several other ISIS commanders in Syria last May, explained that ISIS lost Mosul and o...

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who is the special assistant to the speaker of the Iranian parliament and a former Iranian deputy foreign minister, was interviewed on Iraq's Al-Nujaba TV network. Abdollahian said that Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen is a Zionist plot to weaken Saudi Arabia...

"Abu Abdullah Brittani," a British jihadist fighting in Syria, spoke on the YouTube channel On the Ground News. He described his first experience in battle and said that despite the initial shock it was what he came to Syria for. He said it was exciting and enjoyable, and that it...

Syria-based Egyptian Jihadist Abu Al-Yaqthan Al-Masri said that "every tyrannical rule in the history of Mankind has had the sorcerers of media as one of its cornerstones," mentioning Joseph Goebbels and Winston Churchill as examples. He complained that the image of Jihadi groups...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Al-Muallem accused the U.S. of continuing its "blatant hostility toward Syria since 2011," saying that it continues to support ISIS and has provided the Al-Nusra Front with weapons. Calling any Damascus-Washington communication "highly unlikely," Al-...

Syrian political analyst Hmeidi Al-Abdallah said that the Americans were trying to intimidate the Syrian army and delay the battle over Idlib, out of the realization that "once Idlib is liberated, the foreign forces will be next - and first and foremost the U.S. forces, which occ...

In a recent address, Syria-based Egyptian Jihadist Abu Al-Yaqthan Al-Masri talked about the "thousands and thousands" of foreign fighters in Idlib, and said: "None of them - not Putin, nor Rouhani, nor NasrSatan [Nasrallah], nor Bashar should think that these [fighters] would eve...

Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin said that "it seems as if the West wants to help the terrorists in an attack against the Syrian army and its allies" and that "they want to resort, once again, to the issue of chemical [weapons]," calling it "the most provocative s...

In a Syrian adaptation of cops and robbers, children take to the streets of their neighborhood during Eid Al-Adha with toy guns, "in an effort to imitate the mujahideen in their real battles with the criminal regime." Osama, whose father was killed in battle, says: "This game is ...

During an interview with Lebanon's Mayadeen TV, Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said that under a new Iranian-Syrian agreement, Iran would help Syria rebuild whatever military forces and industries it deems necessary for its national security, and that Syria and it...

In an audio address released on August 22, 2018 to mark Eid Al-Adha, ISIS Leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi praised the "fierce lions" in Canada, Europe, and other "lands of the cross" for carrying out terror attacks, and called on supporters in the West to "strike them in a way that w...

An address by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham Leader Abu Muhammad Al-Joulani circulated on telegram channels associated with the organization on the occasion of Eid Al-Adha, celebrated this year on August 20-21. Al-Joulani said that the weapons of the revolution and the Jihad "constitute a...

Fromer Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Sheikholislam, who serves as an advisor to FM Minister Zarif, denied reports that Tehran would withdraw its forces from Syria if the situation there stabilizes. In an August 18 interview with the Iraqi Al-Nujaba TV channel, he said: ...

This documentary-style video, which was distributed on the Albanian fighters’ Telegram channel on August 4, depicts the life, training, and equipment of a four-man sniper team operating in Syria. The video is in Albanian, with English subtitles, and follows the team on a combat m...

In an Alaan TV channel (UAE) report about European Jihadists fighting in Idlib, Syria, journalist Jenan Moussa said that they faced danger not only from the Syrian army, but from opposition factions who "want to get rid of the foreign Jihadists." However, one of the foreign fight...

On August 9, OTV aired a report on the Druze village of Rami, in south Syria, in the aftermath of an ISIS attack that left many dead. A wounded fighter showed the TV crew where the battle had taken place and said he had been hit by a sniper. A mother declared that she would shoot...

The Russian naval forces stationed at Tartus, Syria, conducted maneuvers on July 30 to mark Russian Naval Day, in the presence of Syrian and Russian commanders and Syrian government officials. General Hassan Hassan, Head of the Political Bureau in the Syrian Army, declared that "...

On July 28, Firqat Al-Ghuraba (the Foreigners' Brigade), a group of foreign fighters, mostly French-speaking, in Syria, aligned with Al-Qaeda, released a new video in French, presented as the first episode of a series titled "In the Skin of a Mujahid." The video shows the group's...

Al-Manar TV interviewed residents of the Al-Fuaa and Kafriya villages, near Idlib, Syria, after their evacuation to a displacement center in Aleppo. An armed young man saluted Hassan Nasrallah and Bashar Al-Assad and declared: "Allah willing, we shall return and liberate every in...

Syrian MP Khaled Abboud said that the Russians "do not have the Iranians and the Syrians in their pocket" and that they cannot speak on their behalf when they talk with the Israelis. Speaking on the Syrian Al-Ikhbariya TV on July 15, he also denied reports that the Iranian army h...

In a recent episode of the "Ask a Sister" Q&A Islamic show, a viewer in the West asked scholar Maseeha Saloojee whether she recommends making hijra to Syria and joining the Jihad in the current climate. Saloojee responded that because of all the different groups in Syria, "it...