On March 6, 2017, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released an audio statement featuring the group’s leader Qasim Al-Rimi eulogizing the “Blind Sheikh,” Omar ‘Abd Al-Rahman, who died February 18, 2017 in a U.S. prison. In the statement, which was posted on AQAP’s official Telegram channel, Al-Rimi accused the …

A March 4, 2017 communiqué by the central command of Al-Shabab Al-Mujahideen, Al-Qaeda’s affiliate in east Africa, eulogized Ahmad Hassan, aka Abu Khayr Al-Masri, Al-Qaeda’s deputy leader who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Syria last week.

Issue 20 of the Uyghur jihad group Turkestan Islamic Party’s (TIP) Arabic-language magazine featured an article that called for attacks against Russian and Chinese targets, especially in North and Central Africa and Central Asia, for their crimes against Muslims in Syria.