Terror organization: ISIS – Islamic State

Status: Spokesman

Role: He is currently giving speeches against the west, Israel and any other entity that disagree with the ideology of the Islamic State

Location: Unknown, most likely in Iraq

Activities:

Abu Hudhayfah Al-Ansari (Arabic: أبو حذيفة الأنصاري) is the current spokesman of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State. He was announced as the spokesman in a speech released by Al-Furqan Foundation media in August 2023. He replaced Abu Omar al-Muhajir as the spokesman of the Islamic State, who was arrested by Tahrir al-Sham.

In August 2023 he announced the killing of the fourth Islamic State leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, announcing Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as his successor, and threatened to increase attacks after US withdrawal. Nothing is known yet about the identity of Abu Hudhayfah. In August 2023, Mina Al-Lami, a Jihadist specialist for BBC Monitoring, speculated on Twitter that Abu Hudhayfah is possibly an Iraqi. On January 2024, Abu Hudayfah released an audio discussing the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.

Speeches
– “So, Rejoice in the Bargain You have Contracted”; 3 August 2023
– “And kill them wherever you find them”; 4 January 2024
– “Monotheism is the goal, and jihad is the path…the war with the Jews will not end in a one-state solution or two-state solution, as nationalists believe. It is a religious ideological war that will continue until we kill their antichrist under the banner of the Prophet of Allah… tighten the plans and diversify operations: Blow them up with explosives, burn them with incendiary bombs, shoot them with bullets, slaughter their necks with knives, and run them over with buses.”; 4 January 2024
– “By Allah, This Religion (Islam) Will Prevail”; 28 March 2024
– “We also do not need to produce legitimate justifications to target a state that fought Muslims in the past and the present, and we continue to kill and arrest its soldiers in the valleys of Sham and the Sahel and the coast.”*