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Middle East
*OSINT Summary: Jabhat al-Nusra deny Damascus suicide bombing
A 14 May statement by Al-Manara al-Bayda, the media wing of Jabhat al-Nusra, refuted a 12 May YouTube video that purported to claim responsibility ...
15-May-2012
*OSINT Summary: Militant Islamist forum addresses pro-government tribesmen in Yemen
Militant Islamist internet forum Ansar al-Mujahideen produced and released a video on 30 April, entitled A Message of Compassion to Those Who Have Allied...
02-May-2012
*OSINT Summary: AQIM emir calls on Algerians to boycott upcoming elections
Al-Andalus, the media wing of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), released a video entitled Boycott the Farcical Elections onto militant Islamist forums on...
02-May-2012
*OSINT Summary: Militant Islamists in Egypt's Sinai call for support of Syria jihad
On 25 April, the Ibn Taymiyyah media centre released a video showing a convoy of militant Islamist sympathisers, flying flags commonly associated with transnational ...
01-May-2012
*OSINT Summary: Jabhat al-Nusra claims Syria bombing
Militant Islamist group Jabhat al-Nusra has claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near the Zeen al-Abideen mosque in the Maidan district of the Syrian ...
30-Apr-2012
*OSINT Summary: PJAK kills four soldiers in Iran
Four Islamic Revolution Guards Corp (IRGC) soldiers were killed and four wounded in an attack by suspected Partiya Jiyana Azada Kurdistane (PJAK) militants near ...
27-Apr-2012
*OSINT Summary: Air strikes allegedly prevent hostage release in Yemen
Prominent tribal leader and former jihadist Tariq al-Fadhli claimed on 25 April that a series of air strikes targeting Ansar al-Sharia militants in the ...
26-Apr-2012
*OSINT Summary: Jihadists parade through Sirte in Libya
A YouTube video posted on 23 March entitled, Al-Qaeda takfirists and their black flags on the streets of Sirte , showed a 29-vehicle militant...
29-Mar-2012
*OSINT Summary: Jihadist discusses Salafist movement in Gaza
The Ansar al-Mujahideen militant Islamist forum published an interview between Engineer Abdullah Jihad al-Ashqar (alias Abu al-Muhtasab al-Maqdisi), the head of media relations for ...
23-Mar-2012
*OSINT Summary: The emergence of jihadist citizen journalism
Over the past decade, militant Islamist groups have developed sophisticated propaganda programmes, exploiting the internet to publicise their attacks and disseminate their ideology to ...
16-Mar-2012
*OSINT Summary: AQAP calls for Sunni uprising in Saudi Arabia
A video entitled Do not place your trust in the unjust was released onto militant Islamist forums by the media wing of Al-Qaeda in...
13-Mar-2012
OSINT Summary: AQIM splinter group claims Algeria suicide attack
In a statement issued directly to AFP news agency on 3 March, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal Jihad fi Gharb Afriqiya (Group of Monotheism and Jihad ...
08-Mar-2012
*OSINT Summary: Jabhat al-Nusra claims first suicide attack in Syrian uprisings
Al-Manara al-Bayda, the media wing of Syrian militant Islamist organisation Jabhat al-Nusra, released a 45-minute video on militant Islamist forums on 27 February. Entitled...
02-Mar-2012
*Hizbullah's Spring break
The Lebanese Shia militant Islamist group, Hizbullah, is currently militarily and politically stronger than at any other point in its 30-year history. The party is...
27-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: Attacks across Iraq spark fears of Sunni militant resurgence
A series of improvised explosive device (IED) and small-arms attacks across Baghdad, as well as several IED attacks in the towns of Al-Hilla, Taji, ...
24-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: Jondollah under increasing pressure
Iranian security forces killed four suspected Jondollah militants in Sistan-Baluchistan province on 21 February, in the latest in a series of counter-terrorism operations targeting ...
23-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: Syrian rebel Islamist unit releases video
A rebel unit identifying itself as Al-Bara Ibn Malik Brigade released a video on 16 February, affiliating itself to the Free Syrian Army (FSA). ...
23-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: Al-Qaeda seeks to re-assert itself
In February, Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri released two videos on various jihadist forums aimed at raising the profile of Al-Qaeda, which has found itself ...
21-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: Video encourages Salafist-jihadist unity in Gaza
On 8 February, the online jihadist forum Ansar al-Mujahideen published a seven-and-a-half minute video entitled This is Our Dogma , produced by the Ibn...
13-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: AQAP promotes its community work in Yemen
An Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) -affiliated media organisation, Madad, released footage on 3 February 2012 purportedly showing Ansar al-Sharia militants in the ...
09-Feb-2012
*OSINT Summary: Video proclaims new Syrian jihadist group
On 24 January, a video released on prominent Islamist forums by the previously unknown Al-Manara al-Bayda media wing claimed to be the first statement ...
31-Jan-2012
*OSINT Summary: Sinai jihadists vow allegiance to Al-Qaeda
On 23 January, an organisation identifying itself as Ansar al-Jihad fi Jazirat Sina, or Partisans of Jihad in the Sinai Peninsula, released a statement ...
26-Jan-2012
*OSINT Summary: Egyptian Sheikh calls for sharia
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Islamist parties have become openly involved in the political process in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia. However, the ...
24-Jan-2012
*OSINT Summary: Syria releases Al-Qaeda strategist
On 23 December 2011, Syrian media outlet Sooryoon.net reported that jihadist ideologue Mustafa Setmariam Nasar alias Abu Musab al-Suri had been released from detention ...
20-Jan-2012
*OSINT Summary: Asaib Ahl al-Haq and post-US Iraq
In an interview aired on Nasr TV on 15 December 2011, Asaib Ahl al-Haq leader Qais al-Khazali discussed the Iraqi security situation in the ...
16-Jan-2012
*OSINT Summary: Ansar al-Islam reacts to US withdrawal from Iraq
On 1 January, Ansar al-Islam issued a statement reacting to the final withdrawal of US troops from Iraq on 18 December 2011. The statement,...
05-Jan-2012
*AQAP's Yemeni takeover
Fighting for its credibility at a critical juncture, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is promoting itself as an integral part of a popular uprising...
14-Dec-2011
*Palestinian Islamists display MRLS
The military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) - Saraya al-Quds (The Jerusalem Brigades) - released a video in late October or early ...
04-Nov-2011
*Iraqi militant group demonstrates mobile killer robots
Ansar al-Islam, an Iraqi militant Sunni Islamist group, released an electronic pamphlet to jihadist forums in October that announced it was building vehicle-borne improvised ...
04-Nov-2011
Hizbullah supports Syrian government
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah, may have undermined his popularity in the Arab world when he backed Syrian President ...
04-Nov-2011
US confirms AQI leader's identity
The US government identified Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (alias Abu Dua and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi) as the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) on ...
04-Nov-2011
*AQAP media chief's fate still uncertain
The Yemeni Ministry of Defence released a statement on 15 October saying Ibrahim al-Banna (Abu Ayman al-Masri), the Egyptian media chief of Al-Qaeda in ...
04-Nov-2011
Free Syrian Army has 'force of 10,000 deserters'
The sustained civil unrest in Syria appears to be turning into an insurgency, with the government reporting an increasing number of attacks and further ...
10-Oct-2011
New group claims Israel strike
A series of attacks in southern Israel on 18 August was claimed by Jamaat Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis in a brief statement dated 6 September ...
10-Oct-2011
*AQAP after Awlaqi
After Anwar al-Awlaqi's death in Yemen on 30 September, US President Barack Obama described him as "the leader of external operations for Al-Qaeda in the...
07-Oct-2011
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