ISKP Vows Moscow-Scale Attacks Across Europe, Threatens Olympics and Sporting Events

On 27 June 2023, 17-year-old Nahel M.

On February 23rd, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an official declaration of

Greece is an interesting (and arguably understudied) country to anyone in the security field.

Fewer than 48 hours after Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s June 29th, 2014 declaration of the caliphate, the Islamic State’s (IS) Al-Furqan Media Foundation released the newly nominated caliph Abu Bakr...

On the morning of October 7, Hamas militants struck out in an unprecedented series of attacks from the Gaza Strip.

In early October, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), in its flagship Voice of Khurasan magazine, attacked China in an article titled ‘Patience O Muslims in East Turkistan!

Over the past few days, multiple Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP)-linked external operations have been foiled, demonstrating a further expansion of the branch’s ambitions to internationalize...

Since its nascency in 2014/2015 Afghanistan, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) has worked to develop a robust and dynamic propaganda apparatus, thriving within a rapidly evolving South Asian...

On January 23rd, Al-Shabaab guerillas raided a China Communications Construction Company (CCCC) work site in Kenya, detonating explosives and torching eight of the firm’s vehicles.

The March 22 mass casualty assault on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall venue, awakened the international community to the external operations capabilities of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP), IS’s...

• Combat strategy and the Sinai 2018 OP

On February 8, 2022, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) released a book exclusively in the English language for the first time.

The Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) continued its propaganda assault on the Taliban in a June 17 issue of its flagship Voice of Khurasan (VoK) magazine series, criticizing the Islamic Emirate...

Since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s comments about wanting to “demilitarise and denazify” the country have been subject to extreme...

The role of foreign fighters has emerged at the centre of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia.

The international reaction of anarchist movements to Russia’s current war in Ukraine has overwhelmingly been one of solidarity with the Ukrainian people and resistance towards Vladimir Putin’s...

The PKK, which has been waging asymmetric warfare for years, especially against Turkey, has recently adapted to modern war tactics.

For years, various Republican groups in Northern Ireland have waged armed struggle against the United Kingdom and associated forces.

Paraguay is scheduled to hold general elections this coming Sunday, 30 April. The next leader of the landlocked South American nation will have several issues to address; one critical security...

Islamic State Kills Russian Wagner Group Mercenaries in Mali

The Islamic State has fostered a potent culture of violent incitement and its organizational directives have streamlined the jihadi attack process.

Since 2013, when Texas University student and gun-rights activist Cody Wilson released online blueprints for the Liberator, the world’s first 3D-printable weapon, the 3D-printed firearms industry has...

A Brief History of the Yugoslav Wars

Earlier this week, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) released a 21-minute-long video through its Al-Azaim Foundation for Media Production titled “The Unrestrained Metastasis Within the Body...

The Crocus City Hall attack in Moscow, Russia, on March 22, which the Islamic State carried out, sparked a new anti-West propaganda campaign by the organization and its branches, raising the threat...

Hezbollah held military drills in South Lebanon on May 21, 2023.

Militant Wire’s Uday Bakhshi speaks to the spokesperson of the West Papua National Liberation Army

Turkistan Islamic Party Militants Remain Active in Syria and Afghanistan

Following the deadly attack on the Crocus City Hall venue in Moscow, in which nearly 150 people were murdered by Islamic State (IS) militants, Turkish security services cracked down on several...

The Taliban took power in Kabul in August 2021, raising a lot of question marks about its future domestic and foreign policy.

On December 22, the US Treasury Department added a Brazilian network of individuals and companies reportedly linked to Al-Qaeda to its terrorism list.

As it last did in November 2022, the global jihadist organization Islamic State (IS) released a lengthy audio on 3 August via its official media outlet al-Furqan Foundation to announce the death of...

Weapons Used by Foreign Legions and Combatants in Ukraine - Part 2

The Russian Imperial Movement (RIM) and its militant wing the Imperial Legion (IL) have received increasing attention from Western intelligence agencies and security researchers since the mid-2010s.

On October 25th, the Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization (БОАК/BOAK) claimed the detonation of an improvised explosive device placed along a Russian railway in the “Nobozybkov-Zlynka stretch”...

In early February, the pro-Islamic State Al-Saqri Foundation for Military Sciences began its latest push to instruct and incite sympathizers to prepare attacks against the movement’s enemies.

On July 11th, personnel from the Jalisco Prosecutor’s Office and the Tlajomulco de Zúñiga Municipal Police responded to a report of a clandestine grave from a member of the Jalisco Seeking Mothers...

The Atesh Movement is a collection of ethnic Ukrainian, Russian and Crimean Tatar partisans working to assist the Ukrainian state in fighting against Russia’s widened invasion of it.

On October 6, a new Tajik language Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) group was created that is purposed to recruit Tajiks and Central Asian supporters to fight in Afghanistan.

The Russian state-backed Wagner Group has been one of Moscow’s key assets in pursuing its interests in Libya and more broadly in Africa and the Middle East.

MW's Tom Lord Speaks with Members of "Eco Platform"

On June 3rd, Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, the former Mayor of Cotija, Michoacan, was assassinated during a targeted attack near the Central Plaza of the municipality.

In recent weeks, an organization called the Malorussian Liberation Army (using the acronym MOA) emerged and appeared on Telegram, Twitter, Instagram, and VK, and also rolled out a website.

When Russian President Vladimir Putin gave his speech to declare war in February 2022, he called for the complete “demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine.” This led many to point to hard-ri...

In the early morning hours of May 22, several armored vehicles and at least tens of Russian rebels under the command of Kyiv launched an armed operation from Ukraine into Russia’s Belgorod region.

Joint Task Force Kills Guerrilla Leader of the Paraguayan People's Army

In late April, international media reported on the elimination of the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) official responsible for planning the August 26, 2021, Kabul airport suicide bombing that...

As the war in Ukraine has dragged on, Russia has increasingly faced threats from the air and over-land in the form of cross-border aerial strikes and raids into its territory.

On the heels of a successful attack against a Moscow concert hall, killing at least 140 people and injuring 150 more, the Islamic State media apparatus has been naming upcoming European events as the...

As in many countries on every continent, a black market involving a large number of weapons has existed in Ukraine for years.

An Analysis of the Operation and the Weapons Used

In the last public-facing video message of Yevgeny Prigozhin published in August, looking warrior-like holding an AKMS-K rifle somewhere in Africa, he boasted how Wagner “is working” to “make Russia...

On October 5, 2021, all official media of the Islamic State (IS), almost simultaneously on all platforms used, released an official video of Wilayah Iraq of about 49 minutes.

On Sunday, June 23, militants launched a coordinated attack across multiple localities in Russia’s Daghestan region.

The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) is a far-right militia that was founded in 2022 and is currently fighting alongside Ukrainian forces.

As March came to a close, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) reported arresting three individuals from a “Central Asian country” who were allegedly planning an explosive strike somewhere in the...

On Tuesday, Denis Nikitin, the leader of the hard-right Ukraine-aligned Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), appeared in a video published on the group’s Telegram channel promising upcoming attacks.

A new terrorist group has emerged in Bangladesh.

The Islamic State is conducting an “economic war” against the movement’s various enemies across the globe.

On the night of October 16, an armed attack was carried out in Brussels, Belgium, by an attacker who broadcast his allegiance online to the Islamic State (IS).

Though the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) remains somewhat limited in its operational capacity, the group has emerged as a prominent international media force.

The recent killing of al-Qaeda chief Aymen al-Zawahiri has raised many questions from analysts, researchers, and journalists about who the next leader of the organization might be.

On August 30th, former commander and current spokesperson of the Azov Movement, Maksym Zhorin, announced on his Telegram channel that Azov is once again bolstering its recruitment efforts and asking...

In recent weeks, the Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) has increasingly warned about spies, infiltrators, and bad actors looking to compromise their Af-Pak networks.

Over the past several weeks, Russian-speaking jihadist Telegram channels have shared banking details for Islamic State (IS) supporters to donate money — purportedly earmarked for IS families detained...

The Ukrainian-Russian conflict has become the first war to be widely broadcasted on TikTok from its onset, with a steady flow of videos taken on the ground and shared on the application.

Dushanbe accused Jamaat Ansarullah jihadists of launching an armed incursion from Afghanistan into Tajikistan on September 6, clashing with security forces before being killed and their massive...

On July 27, Russian Wagner Group fighters traveling with the Malian Army (FAMa) were ambushed by Taureg militants and later Al-Qaeda in Mali.

Concerns over regional peace arose after members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippines army clashed in Basilan last week.

On the evening of Saturday, December 2, an Islamic State (IS) inspired jihadist conducted an attack using a knife and hammer that killed a 23-year-old German-Filipino and injured two others near the...

Benin appeared on the radar of analysts after a series of attacks in December 2021 in the northern part of the country.

The Rise and Fall of Wilayah Sinai's Weapons Capabilities

The Islamic State (IS), since losing the last of its caliphate territory in 2019, has been increasingly promoting its African branches and touting their battlefield successes.

Russia’s Wagner Group has reportedly had a growing presence in the Central African Republic (CAR) since 2017.

Following the death of its leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi, in Syria and operational setbacks in most theatres, the Islamic State’s (IS) propagandists look to uphold morale by portra...

In early December, Turkey announced the arrest of two Islamic State (IS) militants accused of plotting an attack inside the country on New Year’s Eve.

The Islamic State Khurasan Province (ISKP) and supporting propaganda groups have markedly increased their criticisms and threats directed at China in recent months.

Security sources and residents in northeast Nigeria have reported deadly clashes between the country's two main Violent Extremist Organizations (VEOs), Boko Haram and the Islamic State of the West...

Conflicts between Israel/Palestine and Washington’s support for Jerusalem have long been used as a means of justifying violence in propaganda produced by Al-Qaeda (AQ).

On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military orchestrated a coup.

Early on the morning of September 24, for the second time this year Kosovo witnessed some of the worst violence it has seen since the end of the war in 1999, a conflict fought between mostly Serb...

In late summer 2008, the Uyghur-led Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP) gained international media attention for threatening to attack the Beijing Olympics.

Since the onset of the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Wagner organization has attracted global media attention, boosted its operational profile, and has been involved in some of the most...

The United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and other global actors are facing an increasingly unstable situation in the Sahel region.

US Conducts Rare Airstrike Against Al-Shabaab in Somalia

On July 28, al-Shabaab’s Shahada News Agency released a statement saying its fighters fired 10 rockets at Turkish armed forces in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.

The slender littoral West African nation of Benin has been comparatively immune to the jihadi insurgencies raging in neighbouring Nigeria, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

On March 4th, news from Nangarhar reported that Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost, the first Afghan who officially pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2014, had surrendered to the Taliban in Jalala...