Category: Hydra

This month’s In Focus analyzes the audio release of the Islamic State’s spokesman, Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari, and his reference to the ongoing war between Palestinian terrorist groups and Israel in the Gaza Strip, explicitly inciting operatives and supporters to avenge their fellow Muslims...

Overall in 2023, attacks claimed by global jihadi terrorist groups continued to decrease. Both Al-Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) continued to suffer from leadership crisis. Since Ayman al-Zawahiri’s elimination in 2022, AQ has yet to confirm his death or announce his...

This month’s In Focus analyzes the major military campaign by Jama’a Nusrat ul-Islam wa al-Muslimin in Djibo, in Burkina Faso, in which over 1,000 militants participated. The large number of Mujahideen illustrates the consistent strengthening of the jihadi group –...

This month’s In Focus analyzes the potential Global Jihad impact of Hamas’ wide-scale attack against Israeli towns and kibbutzim adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, and the subsequent declaration of war by Israel against the terrorist organizations...

This month’s In Focus analyzes Al-Qaeda’s increased propaganda efforts on the occasion of the commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The propaganda focused on inciting more attacks against the West, and military strategy theory by the AQ leader.In the...

This month’s In Focus analyzes IS core’s recent announcement regarding the death of the group’s leader and the new spokesman’s unusual remarks on the circumstances of his death and the alleged involvement of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham in it. The series...

This month’s In Focus analyzes how Al-Qaeda affiliated chat rooms recently published a series of Islamic State documents and memoranda that provide a rare inside look at secret internal IS correspondence not revealed by IS due to its sensitivity. The...

This month’s In Focus links the brutal attack on a school in the small Ugandan town of Mpondwe to the Islamic State Central Africa Province. Amid ongoing Shuja counterterrorist operations by the Ugandan and Congolese Armies, ISCAP escalated its activities...

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...