Yemen – Page 8

New release from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: “Biography of Mundhir al-Ta’izī”

Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 by Aaron Y. Zelin

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — “Biography of Mundhir al-Ta’izī

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New release from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s Qāsim al-Raymī: “Directives of Jihādī Work”

Posted on January 7, 2023January 7, 2023 by Aaron Y. Zelin

Click the following link for a safe PDF copy: Qāsim al-Raymī — Directives of Jihādī Work

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Source: RocketChat

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New statement from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula: “Sharī’ah Committee: About the Ruling on Fighting in the Ranks of the Apostate Governments”

Posted on January 2, 2023January 3, 2023 by Aaron Y. Zelin

Text:

al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — Sharī’ah Committee- About the Ruling on Fighting in the Ranks of the Apostate Governments

Audio:

al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula — Sharī’ah Committee- About the Ruling on Fighting in the Ranks of the Apostate Governments

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New video message from al-Qā’idah in the Arabian Peninsula’s Qāsim al-Raymī: “Concepts #37″

Posted on December 18, 2022December 20, 2022 by Aaron Y. Zelin

Click here for prior parts in this video series: #36, #35, #34, #33, #32, #31, #30, #29, #28, #27, #26, #25, #24, #23, #22, #21, #20, #19, #18, #17, #16, #15, #14, #13, #12, #11, #10, #9, #8, #7, #6, #5, #4, #3, #2, and #1.

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Source: Telegram

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The Islamic State’s Third Bayat Campaign

Posted on December 1, 2022December 19, 2022 by Aaron Y. Zelin

Previously, I tracked the bayat campaign for Abu Ibrahim after Abu Bakr’s death and then for Abu al-Hasan after Abu Ibrahim’s death. This post will do the same with the announcement of Abu al-Hasan’s death and Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurashi as the new leader of the Islamic State. As I said in the original post:

There are two main reasons for this: 1. pledges are leader-specific rather than group-specific and thus need to be renewed with each succession and 2. it is a way to legitimize al-Qurashi’s rule and create a media event so that the group can promote itself as it transitions to a new phase.

The first reason is also something that IS pointed to when it began to overtly feud with al-Qaeda (AQ) in 2013, by saying that following Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi’s death, his successor Abu Hamzah al-Muhajir gave baya to the newly created Islamic State of Iraq’s leader Abu ‘Umar al-Baghdadi and even after Abu ‘Umar was killed, when Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took over in 2010 and then Usamah Bin Laden was killed in 2011, Abu Bakr never publicly gave baya to Ayman al-Zawahiri, even if al-Zawahiri claims he gave it to him privately. Therefore, from the perspective of IS this whole process is not trivial, but important for legitimacy of its leadership and to potentially weed out any insubordination before it manifests into something larger as it already did in the past vis-a-vis AQ.

This post will be updated with the latest official pledges.

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December 1, 2022:

Wilāyat Gharb Ifrīqīyah – Sambisa Region