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 February 15, 2024, Al-Sahab, the official media outlet of Al-Qaeda's Central Command, published a ten-page essay titled "This is Gaza: The Days of the Ceasefire and Palestine for the Past 75 Years until Today."
On February 23, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) outlet released posters echoing the January 4 message from ISIS's spokesman inciting attacks worldwide against the "criminal" Jews, Christians, and their allies in the aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attack and the ensuing Israeli response in Gaza.
On February 25, 2024, on his Telegram channel, the secretary general of the Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite Al-Nujaba Movement militia, posted a three-page official statement to mark the birthday of the ninth century Shi'ite imam Muhammad Al-Mahdi.
On February 25, 2024, the armed forces of the Yemeni Houthi Ansar Allah movement claimed responsibility for firing several "appropriate naval missiles" at the American ship the MV Torm Thor, and also for a drone attack on American warships in the Red Sea.
Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement – the Houthis – continue to refute reports about the group's intent to target undersea data cables in the Red Sea as part of the group's military campaign aimed at supporting Palestinian groups in the war with Israel.
On February 19, 2024, an official Telegram account run by the Ansar Allah movement – the Houthis – published a short nighttime video purportedly showing an American MQ-9 Reaper attack drone and intelligence collection asset being shot down earlier the same day by a locally made surface-to-air missile in Yemen's Al-Hudaydah Governorate.
On February 20, 2024, Yemen's Ansar Allah Movement – the Houthis – reported that the country's security services had conducted an operation in Al-Qurayshiyah District, in southern Yemen's Al-Bayda Governorate, killing affiliates of the Islamic State (ISIS) in Yemen.
Yemen's Houthis Claim Attacks On U.S. Destroyer And British Vessel In Red Sea
On February 22, 2023, Yemen's Ansar Allah Houthi Movement claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks on American and British vessels in the Red Sea, as well as on targets in Israel.
On February 27, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel published a statement reporting recent GSIM attacks on forces in Burkina Faso.
On February 27, 2024, a pro-Lebanese Hizbullah outlet broadcast a special program about anti-tank weapons in the possession of Hizbullah in Lebanon which, for the first time, revealed that Hizbullah possesses an Iranian-made weapon with a "special guided missile system."
Hamas's Military Wing Releases Trial Version Of Media App For Android Users
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Hamas's military wing, the Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, is attempting to re-launch its mobile application, the Al-Qassam Media app.
On February 25, 2024, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) issued a statement condemning what it called "the renewed American-British aggression against Yemen."
On February 20 and 21, 2024, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), the Islamic State African Sahel Province (ISIS-Sahel), and the Islamic State Mozambique Province depictions of a string of attacks perpetrated by the organization's operatives between February 16 and 20, 2024, against forces of the Nigerian Army, armed militias affiliated with the armies of Mali and Niger, and also against Christian civilians in Mozambique.
On February 21, 2024, Islamic State Mozambique Province released photos documenting its attacks on Christian villages in Chiure, Cabo Delgado.
On February 22, 2024, the Islamic State (ISIS) released Issue 431 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba'.
On February 23, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media group released a one-hour, six-minute "documentary film."
On February 4, 2024, a pro-Afghan Taliban website published a Dari-language article, saying that Tajikistan is cooperating with the Islamic State (ISIS) at the behest of intelligence agencies of America, Israel, and other unbeliever nations to execute attacks in Afghanistan, Iran, and Turkey.
The latest issue of Khurasan Ghag, the Pashtu-language of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), has a cover article condemning the destruction of the 16th-century Babri Mosque in India, and warning that Muslims will soon take revenge.
On January 24, 2024, a jihadi website publishing Islamic State (ISIS)-related material posted the latest issue of a Dari-language magazine of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP).
In a Pashtu-language book, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) argues that Pakistan's military, intelligence agencies, and government are outside the fold of Islam, and dismisses republican democracy in Pakistan as blasphemous and polytheistic.
On February 23, 2024, Issue 431 of ISIS weekly Al-Naba' was released, which included an article reporting, for the first time, three clashes in a single week between the Islamic State East Asia Province (ISEAP) and the Philippine army.
In a Pashtu-language pamphlet, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) threatens the Afghan Taliban with "fierce attacks" in the coming months, saying: "We and other Muslims will see how long your unbeliever masters [the Americans] send you bags of dollars! How long will the intelligence information from China and Iran save you from us?"
Spokesman Of Al-Qaeda Affiliate Al-Shabab Urges Somali Forces To "Repent," Quit
On February 24, 2024, Al-Kataib, the media production of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in Somalia, Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen (Al-Shabab), published a five-minute, 47-second video documenting a speech in Somali by Al-Shabab's spokesperson, Ali Mahmoud Rage.
Poster By Al-Qaeda Supporter Declares Jihad Only Way To Defeat U.S., Jews, Arab Rulers
On February 23, 2024, a prolific Al-Qaeda supporter, published a poster declaring jihad the sole way to resist various enemies throughout Muslim history and until the present.
On February 18-26, 2024, Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel claimed responsibility for attacks against armed forces of Burkina Faso, Benin, and Mali.
On February 27, 2024, a Canada-based pro-Al-Qaeda idealogue shared an article on Telegram sharply criticizing Hamas and its leaders, who made the decision to launch the October 7 attack on Israel, arguing that they have accomplished nothing except increasing the agony of Gazans.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate GSIM Claims Casualties In Attacks In Burkina Faso, Mali
On February 27, 2024, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel published a statement reporting recent GSIM attacks on forces in Burkina Faso.
At the end of January 2024, Syrian jihadi group Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) announced it had concluded a campaign against collaborators and spies within the group, which began several months earlier, and would release those who had not been found guilty of crimes.
On February 22, 2024, a pro-Syrian Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) outlet published on Telegram a set of infographic posters.
Following the January 28, 2024 drone attack on a U.S. military outpost on the Jordan-Syria border, which was attributed to Iran-backed militias and resulted in the death of three U.S. service members, senior commanders of these militias in Syria reportedly left the Deir Al-Zour area in the east of the country area for fear of a U.S. counterattack.
On February 25, 2024, a Syrian pro-opposition outlet reported that "Iranian militias" were about to test their first "suicide drone" manufactured in Al-Bukamal, in Syria's Deir Al-Zour governorate.
In mid-February 2024, two Afghan Taliban members, who had been incarcerated at the U.S. detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, returned to Afghanistan from Oman.
