On January 25, 2012, a fatwa was issued in response to a query, submitted to Minbar Al-Tawhid Wal-Jihad (MTJ) by one "Muhammad Tayeb," regarding the permissibility of killing Sunni soldiers in the employ of the Assad regime.

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Cartoonist: Jehad Awartany

Source: Al-Watan, Saudi Arabia, January 16, 2012

Following contradictory reports about the release of Al-Qaeda's top ideologue Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri from a Syrian prison, "Asad Al-Jihad2," a prominent member of the Shumoukh Al-Islam jihadi forum and a trusted source for fellow jihadis, confirmed that Al-Suri had in fact been freed.

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Egypt's recent elections for the People's Assembly, the first free elections held in the country since the January 25, 2011 revolution, yielded a clear victory for the Islamists – the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Salafi parties – whereas the secular-liberals and the left, and the fledgling parties of the country's youth, women, and Copts, suffered a crushing defeat.

The Democratic Alliance for Egypt, headed by the MB's Freedom and Justice party, won 235 of the total 498 seats in the People's Assembly (47.2%); the Islamic Alliance, a coalition of Salafi parties headed by the Al-Nour party, won 123 seats (24.7%); the Al-Wafd party won 38 seats (7.6%); the Egyptian Bloc coalition won 34 seats (6.8%); the Revolution Continues coalition and the Al-Wasat party won 10 seats (2%) each; and the parties established by former National Democratic Party (NDP) members won about 5% of the seats jointly. Twenty-one parties in the running failed to reach the minimum threshold.

In a recent post, a prominent writer on the jihadi website Shumoukh Al-Islam, who calls himself "Redouane18," urged themujahideen to blow up Western embassies in the Muslim countries, which, he said, are controlling these countries and directing the war against the mujahideen.

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Following are excerpts from a video-clip featuring Maulana Fazluallah, Leader of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, which was posted on the Internet in December 2011.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan member: "You are aware of how Tehrik-i-Taliban from the Malakand province… All praise to Allah, many martyrdom attacks have been carried out. We have approximately 300 martyrdom-seekers in our ranks, and from amongst them we dispatched four martyrdom-attackers, who have struck in Teemalgarah and in other places. At present, these ten martyrdom-attackers are ready. If Allah wills it – then they will set off soon."

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Following the November 26, 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, the Pakistani government banned various Pakistani terror organizations, among them Jamaatud Dawa, the charity arm of the leading jihadist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Both the Jamaatud Dawa and LeT – along with various groups associated with them and their leaders – have been outlawed by the UN Security Council. Later, the group renamed itself Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation. After the Pakistani ban, the websites of Jamaatud Dawa and its associated publications were closed down. However, the organization is making a comeback on the Internet via its websites and the video-sharing site YouTube. Jamaatud Dawa is led by Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, who is wanted in India for masterminding the Mumbai terror attacks.

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The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban's shadow government) has released a video interview with a former Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier who had opened fire on his Australian trainers at a remote training camp in Uruzgan in November 2011. The Dari-language interview was published on the Urdu-language website of the Islamic Emirate.

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