As with several other IS activities and propaganda that made a comeback this year after an absence in 2023, IS has started releasing images of its militants celebrating Eid. First batches, unsurprisingly, came from ISWAP (NE Nigeria & Lake Chad area)

ISIS once again suffering mass channel/account deletions on Telegram including influential 'Bariqa' network.
Jihadists speculate too many channel shared publicly, plus Russian wrath in aftermath of Moscow terror attack (Telegram founders are of Russian origin). Short thread🧵1/

There's been an enhanced clampdown on jihadist accounts (al-Qaeda and IS and their supporters) on Telegram in the past couple of weeks, which has intensified even more in recent days

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Säkerheten i Paris ska förstärkas avsevärt inför onsdagens CL-match efter hot från IS.
- IS skickar ut meddelanden och affischer som uppmanar till attacker under bland annat sportevenemang i Europa, säger BBC:s jihadistexpert Mina Al-Lami till Utrikesbyrån svt.se/nyheter/utrike…

Big news that controversial HTS official Abu Mariyah al-Qahtani has been killed in Idlib, by an IS suicide bomber, according to HTS. Many HTS critics are pointing the finger at HTS itself, given that it imprisoned Qahtani in Aug over spying allegations, and released him in Mar

IS supporters have recently been discussing leveraging AI to boost diversity, appeal and reach of IS content. Among their experimentations appears to this 'news bulletin' (video) that offers a roundup of IS claims, read out by what appears to be an AI-generated presenter

Krassimira Twigg speaks to our Jihadism specialist Mina Al-Lami, Russia experts Andrey Vladov and Olga Robinson and Ukraine expert Margaryta Maliukova. Episode produced by kriszta satori

Within an hour of last week’s deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall, a blame game started. #TheGlobalJigsaw tracks the narratives and the counter-narratives underpinned by generous doses of disinformation.

The supporter ecosystem online is incredibly well-networked and continues to play a central role in getting official content spread across platforms, using Facebook as an example, two public posts of the full speech have been shared 1,146 times since it was first posted.

1107 Mina Al-Lami Thread Reader App 1107 Hola, please find the unroll here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1773440… See you soon. 🤖

Our detailed briefing: monitoring.bbc.co.uk/product/b0001c…

This is important info, esp as many of us wondered why the attackers didn't, as usual, fight to the death, and allowed themselves to be caught. IS claims their guns malfunctioned at some point and they were forced to flee