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 29, 2024, a Gaza-based organization issued a statement titled, "It Is Time for Revolutionary Escalation of the Global Student Intifada for Palestine: A Call from the Palestinian Student Movement in the Gaza Strip."
EXCLUSIVE: Poster By Pro-Islamic State (ISIS) Media Group Vows 'More Terror', Threatens White House
On May 23, 2024, a pro-Islamic State (ISIS) media outlet published a poster on a pro-ISIS archive and fundraising organization, threatening terrorist attacks in the United States.
On June 1, 2024, the Houthi Ansar Allah movement in Yemen claimed responsibility for a missile and drone attack against the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in the Red Sea. This is the second Houthi attack against the ship in 24 hours.
On June 5, 2024, a pro-Al-Qaeda media group launched a new Telegram bot.
On May 30, 2024, the media arm of Islamic State Pakistan Province, Nashir Pakistan, released a poster threatening lone wolf attacks on Americans. The poster came as the latest in a series of posters which have threatened the T20 Cricket World Cup in Long Island, New York, which will be held from June 3 – 12, 2024.
On May 31, 2024, the official Telegram channel of Hamas's military wing, 'Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, shared links to its official channels on Telegram as well as link to its new account on X, formerly Twitter.
On June 4, 2024, Al-Ahad News, a news website linked to Lebanese Hizbullah, published a photograph of a meeting between Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah and Ali Bagheri Kani, acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran's Islamic Republic.
On June 5, 2024, the pro-Hizbullah Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar published an article written by its Editor-in-Chief Ibrahim Al-Amin containing an interview with an unnamed "senior jihadi commander in the Palestinian resistance."
Houthi Ansar Allah Movement Claims Missile Attack Against U.S. Aircraft Carrier in Red Sea
On May 31, 2024, Houthi Armed Forces Spokesman Brigadier General Yahya Sare'e delivered a statement claiming responsibility for the targeting of aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in response to U.S. airstrikes on multiple targets in Yemen's Sanaa, Al-Hudaydah, and Ta'iz governorates.
On June 3, 2024, Yahya Sare'e, the armed forces spokesman of Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi Ansar Allah Movement, claimed responsibility for an attack on a "military target of the Israeli enemy" in the city of Eilat in southern Israel, with a new ballistic missile called "Palestine" which "is being revealed today by the Yemeni Armed Forces for the first time." Sare'e added that the attack "has successfully achieved is objective."
On May 31 and June 1, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for missile and drone attacks on the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, stationed in the Red Sea, in retaliation for "American-British aggression" consisting of multiple airstrikes in Houthi territory.
On June 5, 2024, Yemen's Iran-backed Ansar Allah movement (the Houthis) claimed responsibility for drone and missile attacks against three commercial ships in the Red and Arabian Seas.
4,000 Students Enrolled In Houthi Summer Camps Hold Demonstration Of Combat Skills In Sana'a, Yemen
On June 4, 2024, 4,000 Yemeni students, who were enrolled in Houthi-run summer camps, held a demonstration in Sana'a, Yemen, during which they simulated military maneuvers for high-ranking Houthi officials.
On May 31, 2024, following American and British attacks on Houthi targets in Yemen on May 30, Iraq's Iran-backed Hizbullah Brigades threatened that "the enemy will receive blows upon blows from us."
On May 31, 2024, Abu Alaa Al-Walai, leader of the Iran-backed Iraqi Sayyid Al-Shuhada Brigades militia, delivered a statement via video conference at the 33rd Arab National Conference in Beirut, called "Al-Aqsa Flood," the Hamas name for its October 7 surprise attack on Israel. On the same day, a transcription of his speech was posted on Al-Walai's official Telegram channel.
The Iran-backed militia "Islamic Resistance in Iraq – Saraya Awliya' Al-Dam (The Guardians of Blood Companies)" claimed on May 30, 2024 and again on June 2, 2024, two "double operations" against targets in Haifa, Israel.
On May 31, 2024, Qais Al-Khazali, the Secretary-General of the Iran-backed Asa'ib Ahl-Al-Haqq militia, visited the leader of the Babylon Movement, Rayan Al-Kildani, in Baghdad, Iraq.
On June 2, 2024, the Syrian pro-opposition Euphrates Post media outlet reported that according to "exclusive sources," a day earlier, Iran-backed militias had brought five medium-size trucks from Iraq to the city of Al-Bukamal, southeast of Deir Al-Zour, near the Iraqi border in eastern Syria.
On June 3, 2024, Iran-backed Iraqi Hizbullah Brigades militia spokesman Abu Ali Al-Askari called for the boycott and unarmed expulsion of the "branches of espionage" belonging to the American "occupation" located throughout Iraq.
Islamic State (ISIS) Suspected Of Shooting At U.S. Embassy In Beirut
On June 5, 2024, Russia's state-controlled Russia Today (RT) international news television network reported that on the same day, three operatives armed with light weapons attacked the U.S. Embassy in Awkar, north of Beirut.
On June 5, 2024, the Islamic State's (ISIS) official A'maq News Agency published a statement reporting that according to "security sources," on June 3, an ISIS suicide bomber perpetrated a Suicide Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device (SVBIED) attack against a Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) training site in the village of Al-'Attalah, in the north of Syria's Deir Al-Zour governorate.
On May 29, 2024, Sarh Al-Khilafah Foundation, a media outlet which supports the Islamic State (ISIS), published a two-minute infographic video which tallied the outcome of operations carried out by the various ISIS branches on the African continent from December 28, 2023, to May 22, 2024.
Issue 445 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba' magazine, released on May 30, 2024, includes an "exclusive" article about the recent activities of the Islamic State Mozambique Province (ISMP) in the country's northern Cabo Delgado Province, describing activities carried out there that ISMP had not previously reported.
Issue 445 of the Islamic State (ISIS) weekly Al-Naba' magazine, released on May 30, 2024, included an article in which the ISIS Sahel Province claims responsibility for four previously unclaimed attacks, carried out between May 2 and 25. ISIS also published photos documenting the attacks and their aftermath.
On June 3, 2024, the pro-Islamic State (ISIS) military training outlet, Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences, published a 38-page PDF document titled: "The Mujahid Guidebook For Survival And Concealment."
In early June, 2024, the Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) continued to claim responsibility for attacks on Christian civilians in the northern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In total, 23 were reported executed.
On June 5, 2024, a supporter of the Islamic State (ISIS) shared a video praising lone wolf attacks in the West.
In an Urdu-language booklet, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) says that a crusade has been waged against Muslims for two decades since 9/11, which is depicted on the booklet's cover.
On May 30, 2024, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), published a statement reporting "recurrent aggressions" by the Malian army and the Russian-backed Wagner private military company (PMC) against civilians in the Commune of Tessalit, in Mali's Kidal region.
Al-Qaeda Affiliate GSIM Documents Military Training In Desert Of African Sahel
On June 2, 2024, the Al-Zallaqa Media Foundation, the media arm of Al-Qaeda's affiliate in the African Sahel, Jama'at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimeen (the Group for Support of Islam and Muslims – GSIM), published a five-minute, 29-second video documenting GSIM operatives undergoing military training at the Ma'sadat Al-Ansar [Lions' Den of the Supporters] training camp in a desert area.
On May 31, 2024, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) released a statement in Urdu and in English versions titled, "Policy Stance of AQS on the Kashmir Jihad."
During the past several weeks, the northwestern Syria's rebel-held area of Idlib and the surrounding region, governed by Syria's main jihadi group, Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), witnessed heightened tensions amid a wave of protests, demanding the removal of HTS's security apparatus, the liberation of all prisoners, and above all – a demand for Al-Joulani to step down.
The official Urdu-language website of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA, i.e., the Afghan Taliban) published an article lamenting the failure of the United Nations and the Islamic countries to intervene in Gaza. The article, titled "The Brutality Of The Zionist Regime On Gaza And Rafah And The Criminal Silence Of The World," is written by one Sohaib Samangani.
Recently, Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Hibbatullah Akhundzada addressed a seminar of Islamic religious scholars organized by the Ministry of Higher Education in Kabul.
