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A newsletter that collects the main propaganda of Jihadist organisations and groups, from 9 to 18 November in one publication.
Propaganda will be divided into individual organisations:
In the case of al-Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS), central leadership and official branches and provinces will be included.
As of 1 June, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)and Ahrar al-Sham, groups operating in Syria, will no longer be included in this weekly monitoring of jihadist propaganda. The reasons are found in the fact that they no longer seem to apply the ideological and theoretical principles of jihadism in their propaganda, operations, and daily life.
Jihadists are defined by their desire to create a state based on a Salafist approach to Islamic law, they oppose Muslim regimes that are not governed by Islamic law and their foreign supporters, and they aim at the total overthrow of the established order.
HTS and Ahrar al-Sham (recently aligned with HTS) seem to be doing none of this. They do not implement jihadist governance or oppose foreign Muslim states but want to ally themselves with them, and even reach out, collaborate, agree with Western countries, or be recognized by international organizations. They avoid, in the areas under their control, implementing Salafist norms on the population, they oppose and fight other jihadist organizations, and in the speeches of their ideologues they do not seem to evoke or cite Salafist jihadist arguments, but purely Islamist ones.
On the other hand, some groups integrated into the HTS brigades or collaborating with the “Al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room” and the aligned groups remain included, as in their ideology and propaganda (also since they are not indigenous groups) continue to show clear links to local or global jihadism.
So, after AQ and IS, a section will be devoted to groups that are integrated into the Liwa of HTS but publish independent propaganda.
This will be followed by groups aligned with HTS (operationally and militarily, they coordinate with the “al-Fateh al-Mubin Operations Room” of HTS or they respect the policies of HTS), but not integrated with it.
Then there will be the independent groups, i.e. those that even though they have alliances and close relations with other jihadist groups, have independent operations and propaganda.
Finally, there will be the Jihadist tactical groups.
This issue features all the main propaganda material from:
al-Qaeda:
(JNIM);
Islamic State (IS):
(2 issues al-Naba, IS official media)
Jihadist groups integrated into Liwa/Brigade HTS but with independent propaganda.
(Tavhid Va Jihod);
Independent Jihadist groups:
(Turkestan Islamic Party, Ansar al-Islam, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, Jaysh al-Adl);
Jihadist Tactical Group:
(Albanian Tactical).
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Al-Qaeda (AQ)
Az-Zallaqa Media, Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM), released six statements, and eight photos, claiming six attacks.
Target: Malian Army, Wagner militia, Burkinabè Army
Area:
- Niono - Markala Road, Segou Region; Kiri area, Tombouctou Region; in Mali.
- Kogo - Sangha Road, Koulpélogo Province, Centre-Est Region; Salogo area, Ganzourgou Province, Plateau-Central Region; Séguénéga area, Yatenga Province, North Region; Burkina Faso
Islamic State (IS)
The Islamic State released issues 416 and 417 of its weekly al-Naba Newspaper.
Within the issue, a lot of information is disseminated about the military operations conducted by IS in the week covering from 2 to 15 November 2023.
A total of 46 operations were conducted, resulting in 108 dead and wounded.
The provinces affected by the mentioned week’s military operations were: Sham (Syria), West Africa (Nigeria), Iraq, Khorasan (Afghanistan), Mozambique, East Asia (Philippines) and Central Africa (RD Congo).
In Issue 417, the Islamic State editorial returned to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Aramite groups, focusing on the recent Riyadh summit.
IS maintained its critical and accusatory line against the Arab and Muslim governments, noting that they did not expect any concrete action from the assembled countries (we said this ourselves before the speeches began, accusing all the assembled leaders of being involved in one way or another in protecting Israel and its interests.
IS also mocked the summit, for the presence of Iran and Syria ('the new brothers of the Saud family'), recalling how they killed Palestinians in Syria and Iraq, and so many Muslims.
The same accusation was made against the Gulf countries and Turkey, recalling their killings of Muslims in Syria and Iraq.
It thus emphasises the need to overthrow the existing regimes and destroy their state systems accused of being defenders of Tel Aviv.
Amaq News Agency, the official media of the Islamic State, issued a lengthy statement claiming the killing of 24 members of the Syrian army and “National Defence” militia, and seizing vehicles, weapons and ammunition, in a violent attack by its fighters against two barracks north of the town of As-Sukhna, in the desert of Homs governorate. Syria.
The official media of the Islamic State released a photo report to show the attack of militants of the Mozambican Province (IS-Moz) against a Christian village in the Macomia area, Cabo Delgado. Mozambique
Jihadist groups integrated into Liwa/Brigade HTS but with independent propaganda.
Tavhid Media, Tavhid va Jihod, an Uzbek jihadist group operating in Syria, also known as Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (KTJ), integrated into HTS as Liwa Abu Obeida al-Jirrah released an approximately two-minute video entitled: “Our boys”, in which it shows numerous scenes of training, Ribat point control and attacks against the regime.
Independent Jihadist Group
Islam Awazi, Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), jihadist Uyghur group released some photos to show its fighters from the Syrian branch at Ribat points in the al-Tufahiyah axis, in the Jabal al-Turkmen. Latakia governorate. Syria
Islam Awazi, Islamic Party of Turkestan (TIP), a Uyghur jihadist group, released a video entitled: “Be ready”, to show its fighters from the Syrian section training in the use of numerous types of weapons and different contexts.
Al-Ansar Media, Ansar al-Islam (AAI), released a statement to claim sniper attacks against the Syrian governmental army in the Jabal Al-Akrad, in the Latakia Governorate. Syria
Ajnad al-Kavkaz, a Chechen jihadist group, operating in Syria and independent, but collaborating with several other local jihadist groups, published a training video. This is a training video in which fighters from Ajnad al-Kavkaz confront each other on different types of training:
- Distance to target: 100 metres
- Running distance: 190 metres
- Shooting from three different positions.
The area is the hills of Idlib. Syria
The Iranian Jihadist organisation Jaysh al-Adl, operating in Sistan & Balochistan, released an approximately 8-minute video showing the military training of the snipers of its special unit “Saad Ibn Abi Waqqas”.
Jihadist Tactical groups
Albanian Tactical, a tactical group of the jihadist group Xhemati Alban, published a photo report of its fighters in training. Syria
The new propaganda photo series is entitled: “Military Life” (For more details on Albanian Tactical’s recent propaganda, click and read here).
Daniele Garofalo is a researcher and analyst on Jihadist Terrorism, Islamist Insurgents and Armed Groups. He is an expert in Monitoring Jihadist Media Channels and Islamist Rebel and Armed Groups.
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