“Islamic State (ISIS) Weekly Editorial Praises Operatives’ Jihad Against Christians In Africa: Carry The Mission To The Shores Of Europe, Plot Bloody Revenge Against Europe’s Christians In Their Own Backyards,” MEMRI, August 8, 2025:
On August 7, 2025, the Islamic State (ISIS) released issue 507 of its weekly newsletter, Al-Naba’. The issue featured an editorial titled “Light of Jihad,” praising ISIS’s “jihad” targeting and killing Christians in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Mozambique, and inciting ISIS adherents to imitate their brethren in Africa and “exact” the divine verdict on Christians across Europe.
The editorial started by crediting the ongoing “Inferno of Camps” launched by the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) against militaries and security personnel in Nigeria and neighboring areas, for firing up the “flames of jihad” in the DRC and Mozambique against “combatant” Christians, which, the editorial asserted, were immersed into a new cycle of displacement, anguish, humiliation, and ruin.
The reason behind the “increasing” jihadi activity in Africa, per the piece, is that ISIS mujahideen benefited greatly from other jihadi actions in the past, adding: “They talked less but acted momentously. They obeyed the divine commands, avoided prohibitions, and left aside every fallacy.”