On February 1, 2018, the third issue of the pro-Al-Qaeda English-language magazine, Al-Haqiqa, [The Truth] was published on a new official Al-Haqiqa Telegram channel.[1] The issue was distributed on numerous pro-Al-Qaeda channels on Telegram. The first issue of the magazine was r…

On January 10, 2018, the press office of the YPG, the Kurdish People’s Protection Units militia, released a video of French jihadi Thomas Barnouin,[1] who has been held by the YPG since he was captured, along with six other French nationals, on December 17, 2017. The video, 9:42 …

The following information is based on a general overview of a social media account demonstrating terror-related activity / sympathies

Platforms: Facebook; Telegram; YouTube

Type of account: French Fighter in Syria

Account name(s): Abu Al Bara (a.k.a Mohammed Kevin). [1]
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On December 18, 2017, a French fighter in Syria who is affiliated with Al-Qaeda shared a five-minute audio message that he recorded, calling on Muslims in France and Europe to embark upon jihad to defend Islam and the Muslims. The message, posted on YouTube,[1] was shared on a pr…

On December 26, 2017, the Uyghur jihadi group Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda and currently fighting alongside Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), opened an official Telegram channel in French.[1] The channel shares all official TIP material and translate…

On December 31, 2017, the Islamic State (ISIS) Al-Barakah (Hasakah) Province claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on Kurdish forces in Syria, reporting that it was perpetrated by a fighter of German origin, as indicated by his name, Abu Amar Al-Almani.[1] No picture of the…

On December 31, 2017, the Islamic State (ISIS) Al-Hayat Media Center released a four-minute music video of a French language nasheed, or Islamic a cappella song. The video was distributed through official media channels on Telegram.[i] Nasheeds are an important and powerful tool …

On December 25, 2017, a group of jihadi fighters in Kashmir published a video on Telegram through their media outlet Al-Qaraar.[1] The 14-minute video confirms rumors that a group of fighters in Kashmir have pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi and joined the Islamic State …

As part of the recent wave of messages by ISIS supporters threatening terror during the holidays, a Telegram channel dedicated to sharing pro-ISIS posters and images distributed a new graphic poster threatening Paris. The poster shows an armed ISIS fighter carrying a bomb looking…

On December 16, 2017, the pro-Islamic State (ISIS) hacker group Caliphate Cyber Ghosts (CCG) posted a 10-minute video on Telegram titled “And Sit in Wait for Them at Every Place of Ambush.”[1] The video delivers a threatening message to the U.S. and all other members of the anti-…

On December 16, 2017, the Al-Sadaqah organization,[1] which raises money for mujahideen fighters in Syria, posted a one-minute clip on Telegram featuring a foreign fighter in a trench. The fighter takes the viewer on a tour of what he describes as a frontline position where condi…

On December 12, 2017 the ‘Uqba Bin Nafi’ Battalion, associated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), claimed responsibility for a December 11, 2017 IED attack on Tunisian soldiers in the mountainous area of Sha’nabi, near Kasserine, a hotspot of jihadi insurgency. Accordin…

On December 13, 2017, the pro-ISIS media outlet Fursan media released a poster featuring New York City Police Commissioner James P. O’Neill dressed in an orange jump suit kneeling next to a masked jihadi fighter armed with a knife.[1] The poster shows a NYC street in the backgrou…

On December 6, 2017, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem (Al-Quds in Arabic) as the capital of Israel, the spokesman of the Somalia-based Al-Qaeda affiliate Harakat Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, Ali Dhiri, issued a statement to its news agency Shahada News c…

On November 29, 2017, the Islamic State (ISIS) news agency Amaq published a communique in which it took responsibility for the assassination of a Somali soldier in the streets of Afgooye, near Mogadishu, Somalia.[1] Amaq also released an 18-second video, filmed by a man who appea…

On November 24, 2017 Al-Qaeda’s Al-Sahab media company released on behalf of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) the first part of an interview with the group’s spokesman Ustadh Usama Mahmood. This is the first such interview with an AQIS leader since the creation of the g…

On November 25, 2017, the group of hackers calling itself United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) released a four-minute video reporting on its hacking activity. The video, which was distributed on pro-ISIS Telegram channels,[1] consists entirely of infographics and archive footage on ISIS …

In a November 22, 2017 post on a closed French-language pro-Al-Qaeda Telegram channel, an Al-Qaeda operative in Syria called for Muslims in France to immediately leave the country and make hijra (migrate) to Syria to join the jihad there. Claiming to be in contact with several in…

On November 20-21, 2017, the anti-ISIS hacking group “ShadowSec” published on their Twitter and Telegram channels lists of e-mails and IP addresses allegedly belonging to ISIS supporters. The e-mail addresses are all from Hotmail, and the IP addresses are geolocated to countries …

On November 22, 2017, the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) in Syria released a new series of pictures and two short video clips documenting the ongoing battle against the Syrian army in eastern Hama province[1]. The pictures, which were posted on official TIP and Al-Qaeda-affiliated…