Category: Hydra

This month’s In Focus examines the surge of Islamic State West Africa Province violence in the Lake Chad Basin in May, amid ongoing counterterrorist operations by the Nigerian Army. In recent weeks, ISWAP launched a widescale campaign to protect its...

In this month’s In Focus, we examine the reaction of global jihad groups to the unrest in Sudan that started on April 15, 2023, caused by an armed conflict between rival factions of the military. For now, the Islamic State...

In this month’s In Focus, in Afghanistan, after a period of about two months during which the Islamic State’s Khorasan Province was silent and did not claim responsibility for any attacks, the group returned in the past month in full...

In this month’s In Focus, we examine the Sahel region, which has experienced major changes since French forces ended their presence in Burkina Faso, holding a flag lowering ceremony on February 19, 2023. On March 3, 2023, the Az-Zallaqa Media...

During January 2023, leaders of far-right parties in Denmark and the Netherlands burned and tore up copies of the Quran, triggering a large-scale wave of responses, including statements of condemnation and numerous protests around the world. Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State were quick to condemn these acts, but...

With AQ’s ideologue and emir, Dr. Ayman al-Zawahiri, announced dead on August 2, 2022, and two successive IS emirs neutralized in Syria in less than one year, the two jihadi groups faced a major blow to their organizations in 2022,...

As FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 nears its final stages, this month’s In Focus item analyzes the various responses to the football tournament and its host, Qatar, by the two major jihadi groups – Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State. AQ...

This month’s In Focus examines the recent terror attacks in India in late September and during October, in two different areas of the country. On the night of September 28, 2022, and the following morning, September 29, 2022, two IED...

On September 8, 2022, a Chechen jihadi-associated Telegram channel posted an instructional video explaining how to use the aTox application – a free mobile messenger – using the Tox protocol. The app is recommended by the channel’s author as a...

In recent months, a Telegram channel called “Devotion and Loyalty,” which is part of a Tajik network affiliated with the Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP,) published intensified communiqués regarding money transfers aimed to raise funds for ISKP militants fighting...

Controversial remarks about the Prophet Muhammad by two Indian politicians provoked a Global Jihadi propaganda campaign by AQ and IS to avenge the Prophet. Two terror attacks were conducted against Indian targets: an organized raid-suicide attack by ISKP at a...

In the past three months, a new, anonymous, jihadi group named Hurras al-Tawheed has surfaced, replete with a spokesman, a media wing and several propagandist products, including a bi-weekly magazine titled, “O Mujahideen in the West.” Hosting under Al-Qaeda’s Gnews...

As the eyes of the entire world are turned to the war in Ukraine, jihadi groups are also reacting to the situation from their relevant perspectives. The Afghan Taliban mainly focused on expressing its concern about Afghan citizens and students...

The passing month has been hectic for the Islamic State Al-Sham (Syria) Province, highlighted by its most profound attack in recent years and the elimination of IS leader Abdullah Qardash. On January 20, 2022, the group carried out a complex...

The year 2021 saw major growth in the significance of IS provinces in Africa to the group’s central command, manifested both by the attention given to the African provinces in IS propaganda and by developments on the ground. In terms of the latter,...