Ruben CeladaOnline Jihadist Responses to the Iran War: Divergence, Propaganda, and Positioning
Read moreSince the launch of Israeli and United States’ military operations against Iran on 28 February 2026, online jihadist ecosystems linked…
Adam RoussellePropaganda as Financial Infrastructure: How Islamic State and al-Qaeda Media Ecosystems Enable Terrorist Finance
Read morePropaganda ecosystems function as parallel trust infrastructures, enabling extremist organisations to coordinate financial activity outside formal financial systems. While extremist…
Daria AlexeAl-Qaeda’s Cyber Jihad Movement: Plugging into Iran’s Wartime Hacktivist Ecosystem
Read moreOn 4 March 2026, the Cyber Jihad Movement (CJM) issued a communiqué on its official Signal channel announcing its “entrance…
Rueben DassUnderstanding Terrorist Innovation: A Case Study in Drone Adoption
Read moreModern conflict has been shaped by the use of new and emerging technologies. The use of drones is a prime…
Adam RousselleThe Targeting of Ethnic Tajiks by Online Extremists: A Global Problem
Read moreIntroduction Extremist groups increasingly target ethnic Tajiks for recruitment through sophisticated online propaganda campaigns, resulting in some of the world’s…
Adam RousselleFrom Trees to Terror: JNIM’s Use of Online Rosewood Sales to Fuel Expansion
Read moreIntroduction On 17 September, al-Qaeda-affiliated Malian terror group Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin (JNIM) carried out a series of attacks…
Daniel SiegelAI Jihad: Deciphering Hamas, Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Generative AI Digital Arsenal
Read moreNote: This Insight is a preliminary exploration and forms part of a broader research paper currently in development. The full…
Scott N RomaniukTerrorist Platform Migration: The Move to Smaller, Less Regulated Online Spaces
Read moreIntroduction and Background The internet provides terrorists and violent extremist organisations (VEOs) with novel and useful means of achieving their…
Mona ThakkarIslamic Translation Centre (ITC): Taking Al-Qaeda’s Media Jihad Global
Read moreIntroduction In the Salafi-Jihadist milieu, Al Qaeda (AQ) and the Islamic State (IS) are in competition to attract new supporters…
Meili CriezisAl Qa’ida and Islamic State Supporter Reactions to Zawahiri’s Death
Read moreThis 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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