Analysis No. 511 of the Islamic State’s al-Naba weekly.

Propaganda and operations of IS provinces

The Islamic State publishes its al-Naba magazine every week, providing significant information on the group’s military, ideological, and propaganda activities in its provinces.

Analysing the weekly issue of the al-Naba newsletter, the Islamic State's official media product, allows one to assess the jihadist organisation's threat in operational terms.

The weekly newsletter reached number 511 last Thursday.

Operations and propaganda details

Issue 511, twelve pages long, covers the week of 5 to 11 Rabi al-Awwal 1447, from 28 August to 3 September 2025.

Al-Naba generally includes most of the statements and photos published daily over the past week on its official channels, although often with new elements or additional details, both written and photographic. However, al-Naba won’t include unpublished statements or messages.

The main infographic summarises the areas affected by military operations during the week mentioned above: Nigeria, Syria, Niger, Somalia, Pakistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

IS claims to have conducted 19 operations in all the mentioned areas and to have caused 203 deaths and injuries.

In the latest issue of the weekly al-Naba (511), the Islamic State published an infographic referring to activities in its Somali province (IS-Somalia) in recent weeks (without specifying a date) and claiming 8 attacks, killing and wounding 170, through ambushes and IEDs against Puntland Security Forces.

The attacks are all conducted in the Bari region, Puntland, Somalia.

On the fourth page, the weekly magazine goes into detail about the types of attacks, operations and targets of Islamic State fighters, who follow two main strategies: “war of attrition” and “economic warfare”, as well as other strategies aimed at targeting Christians and Shiites. Since 20 March, the Islamic State has embarked on a new military campaign, particularly in Africa (in the areas of Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon and Mozambique) called “Burning Camps”.

Below is a detailed account of the attacks by province/area: