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Posts tagged with ‘al-Qaeda’

  • Apr072026

    Propaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance

    Propaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside formal financial systems. While extremist…

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  • Mar232026

    Al-Qaeda’s Cyber Jihad Movement: Plugging into Iran’s Wartime Hacktivist Ecosystem

    On 4 March 2026, the Cyber Jihad Movement (CJM) issued a communiqué on its official Signal channel announcing its “entrance…

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  • Mar202026

    Understanding Terrorist Innovation: A Case Study in Drone Adoption

    Modern conflict has been shaped by the use of new and emerging technologies. The use of drones is a prime…

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  • Dec132024

    The Targeting of Ethnic Tajiks by Online Extremists: A Global Problem

    Introduction Extremist groups increasingly target ethnic Tajiks for recruitment through sophisticated online propaganda campaigns, resulting in some of the world’s…

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  • Nov252024

    From Trees to Terror: JNIM’s Use of Online Rosewood Sales to Fuel Expansion

    Introduction On 17 September, al-Qaeda-affiliated Malian terror group Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) carried out a series of attacks…

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  • Feb192024

    AI Jihad: Deciphering Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Generative AI Digital Arsenal

    Note: This Insight is a preliminary exploration and forms part of a broader research paper currently in development. The full…

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  • Jun232023

    Terrorist Platform Migration: The Move to Smaller, Less Regulated Online Spaces

    Introduction and Background The internet provides terrorists and violent extremist organisations (VEOs) with novel and useful means of achieving their…

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  • Nov142022

    Islamic Translation Centre (ITC): Taking Al-Qaeda’s Media Jihad Global 

    Introduction  In the Salafi-Jihadist milieu, Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) are in competition to attract new supporters…

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  • Aug082022

    Al Qa’ida and Islamic State Supporter Reactions to Zawahiri’s Death

    This Insight provides a quick overview of al-Qa’ida supporter reactions to Zawahiri’s death followed by a closer focus on pro-IS…

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  • Jun282022

    Al Qaeda, Islamic State, and Targeted Online Propaganda Around India’s Domestic Political Discourse

    Some recent comments made by party functionaries of the ruling Bharaitya Janata Party (BJP) of India on Prophet Mohammed led…

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