Al-Naba (Arabic: النبأ lit. The News or The Report) is an official weekly newspaper issued by the Central Media Office of the Islamic State, first published in 2014.[2][3][4][5]
The first issue of the newspaper was published in May-June 2010, and on 17 October 2015 it started its activity as an official weekly newsletter.[6] As of February 7, 2025, it published 481 issues.[7]
With the defeat of IS in both Syria and Iraq, the newspaper temporarily stopped being published, although it resumed as the organisation regrouped.[8]
See also
References
- ^ al-Naba no. 1
- ^ "In Weekly Al-Naba', ISIS Claims Katyusha Rocket Attack On Three Libyan National Army Outposts In Southern Libya". MEMRI. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Al-Lami, Mina (11 May 2020). "Africa's Sahel becomes latest al-Qaeda-IS battleground". BBC News. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ "Analysis: The Islamic State's ideological campaign against al-Qaeda". Long War Journal. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 4 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ "Analysis: Islamic State claims Al Qaeda started a war in West Africa". Long War Journal. Foundation for Defense of Democracies. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
- ^ Kadivar, Jamileh (22 March 2021). "Daesh and the Power of Media and Message". Arab Media & Society (30). doi:10.70090/JK20DPMM. Retrieved 22 June 2021.
- ^ "New issue of The Islamic State's newsletter: "al-Nabā' #477″". jihadology.net. Retrieved 10 January 2025.
- ^ Al-Lami, Mina [@Minalami/] (17 June 2022). "IS, through its weekly newspaper al-Naba, which came out yesterday, reiterates a call for hijrah (jihadist migration) to Africa, saying today it's a key front for IS. "The scenes we see today in Africa are the same we saw yesterday [in past] in Syria and Iraq"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
