Afghanistan: ISIS operatives once again carried out an attack on a Shiite mosque in the Kandahar Province during Friday prayers. More than 60 people were killed in the attack and a similar number were wounded. The attack was carried out at the Bibi Fatima Mosque, the largest Shiite mosque in the Kandahar Province. According to ISIS, the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers. At the same time, ISIS operatives continued to carry out attacks against Taliban military operatives.
In Syria, relatively low ISIS activity was recorded this week. In the desert region: ISIS operatives carried out an extensive attack against Syrian army positions, inflicting many casualties. According to a military source, this was the deadliest attack carried out by ISIS operatives against the Syrian army in the region in a long time. In the Al-Hasakah region: Kurdish forces detained a source of funding for ISIS in the Al-Hawl camp. In the Idlib region: The Syrian army continued firing artillery at the rebel enclave in Idlib

In Iraq as well, the number of attacks continued to drop. Iraqi security forces detained Ghazwan al-Zoba’i, codenamed Abu Obeida Baghdad, an ISIS operative who was responsible for a car bomb blast in the Al-Karadah neighborhood of Baghdad at the end of Ramadan 2016. Around 300 people were killed in the attack, and 200 others were wounded.
Africa: The Nigerian chief of staff reported the death of Abu Mus’ab Al-Barnawi, commander of ISIS’s West Africa Province. ISIS did not confirm the report. At the same time, ISIS operatives continued to attack targets of the Nigerian army and the militias that support it in the northeast of the country.
Britain: A British MP was stabbed to death during an election rally at a church. British security officials determined that this was a terrorist attack. The perpetrator of the attack is a British citizen from Somalia who underwent a process of Islamic radicalizatio

The battle for hearts and minds: This week’s lead article in ISIS’s Al-Naba’ weekly was devoted to an argument with those who oppose the war against the Shiites (implicitly the Taliban). The author emphasizes that the Shiites have severely harmed members of the Sunni community and pose a danger to Isla

 

By Meir Amit Intelligence and information Center