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December - 6 
Al Qaeda (AQ) affiliated group, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) urged every Muslim to attack the US and Israeli embassies, also to harm the corporate and financial interests established around the world, reports The Mirror on December 7. “The hono
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Al Qaeda (AQ) affiliated group, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) urged every Muslim to attack the US and Israeli embassies, also to harm the corporate and financial interests established around the world, reports The Mirror on December 7. “The honour of Bait Al-Maqdisis will be restored by shedding the blood of Americans and Israelis. The Holy Land must be made a graveyard for Jews, for oppression to end and word of Allah to prevail," said news report. Notably AGuH is al Qaeda affiliated group based in Kashmir. The call was a response to the US President’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel.
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December - 6 
The Kashmir-based al Qaeda affiliated terror group, Ansar Ghazwat ul-Hind (AGuH), on December 6 called on Indian Muslims to join the cause of jihad as ‘Hindus keep changing their tactics until their mission is accomplished—which is to eli
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The Kashmir-based al Qaeda affiliated terror group, Ansar Ghazwat ul-Hind (AGuH), on December 6 called on Indian Muslims to join the cause of jihad as ‘Hindus keep changing their tactics until their mission is accomplished—which is to eliminate every Muslim, be it children, elder, men or women’, reports The Indian Express. The message was also directing the audience in Pakistan, pointing the military ruler ex-Pakistan Army Chief General (retd) Parvez Musharraf’s assault on Lal Masjid premises in Islamabad, “The Babri Masjid and the Lal Masjid were one, and those who extinguished them were also one, both idol-worshippers”. Notably, unlike other jihadist groups operating in Kashmir, AGuH believes in ‘widening the struggle’ to impose Islamic rule in India. The call was read by a jihadist using the pseudonym ‘Sultan Zabul al-Hindi’ whose dialect suggests that he is a non-Hindi speaker. There is no information on any individual from outside of Kashmir serving in AGuH, said intelligence sources.
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December - 7 
A District Court of Delhi on December issued a production warrant 7 against an al Qaeda suspect—Shamiun Rahman (27 years-old) - a Bangladeshi-British national, for his involvement in recruitment of Rohingya Muslims for al Qaeda and train them t
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A District Court of Delhi on December issued a production warrant 7 against an al Qaeda suspect—Shamiun Rahman (27 years-old) - a Bangladeshi-British national, for his involvement in recruitment of Rohingya Muslims for al Qaeda and train them to fight against the Myanmar Army, reports PTI. Rahman had stayed at madrassas (seminaries) in Kishanganj (Bihar), Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), and different locations in the National Capital Region (NCR) following his plans to set up base in either in Mizoram or Manipur to train the radicalised youths, said the Delhi Police. Following his arrest in September 2017, a First Information Report (FIR) was filed under various provisions of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), Arms Act and the Passport Act.
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December - 8 
The al Qaeda has restructured its organisational apparatus in India, with one unit being dedicated to terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the other to subversive actions in the rest of India, New Indian Express reports on December 9. The te
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The al Qaeda has restructured its organisational apparatus in India, with one unit being dedicated to terrorist operations in Jammu and Kashmir and the other to subversive actions in the rest of India, New Indian Express reports on December 9. The terror outfit has also released a video exhorting Muslims in the uniformed services in India to join their fold, where they can continue to fight while practising Islam. As part of the internal restructuring, the outfit designated for Jammu and Kashmir has been named Al Qaeda Kashmir (AQK), to be led by Zakir Musa, who has been operating in the Valley under the banner of Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind after breaking away from Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) in 2016. Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), headed by Maulana Asim Umar alias Sanaul Haque, will carry forward the terror agenda of the outfit in the rest of the country. “The AQK has also been given responsibility for training radicalised youth for terror operations in the Valley and beyond. The Musa-led group has so far motivated 15-20 Kashmiris to join its ranks for so-called jihad and to fight for the Rohingyas in Rakhine state of Myanmar,” a senior Intelligence official said.
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December - 11 
India-China-Russia trilateral, for the first time, called for cooperation to take decisive and concerted action against globally-proscribed terrorists and terror entities on December 11, reports Indian Express. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma
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India-China-Russia trilateral, for the first time, called for cooperation to take decisive and concerted action against globally-proscribed terrorists and terror entities on December 11, reports Indian Express. Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, however, did not mention Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) in the list of terror groups, although she mentioned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), Taliban, Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda. In her bilateral meeting with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi, she stressed the need to meet more frequently and without any agenda to strengthen mutual trust. While the RIC statement is viewed positively, South Block sources said they do not expect any radical change in China’s behaviour.“We call for the swift and effective implementation of existing international commitments on countering terrorism, including the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, relevant UN Security Council resolutions and targeted sanctions relating to terrorism and the FATF International Standards worldwide. We agree to strengthen cooperation to take decisive and concerted actions against globally proscribed terrorists and terror entities. We condemn all forms of terrorism and all terrorists, terror entities and organisations listed by the UN Security Council,” said the joint statement issued after the trilateral meeting.
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December - 12 
The Delhi Court on December 12 send alleged al Qaeda (AQ) operative, Shamiun Rahman, a Bangladeshi-British national to judicial custody with extending the period of investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) by a month conducted, repor
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The Delhi Court on December 12 send alleged al Qaeda (AQ) operative, Shamiun Rahman, a Bangladeshi-British national to judicial custody with extending the period of investigations by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) by a month conducted, reports The Daily Excelsior on December 12. Shaimun Rahman (27 years-old) was arrested in September by the Delhi Police for his alleged involvement to recruit youths for the terror outfit and train them to fight against the Myanmar Army.
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December - 19 
India and the United States (US) on December 19 concluded their ‘first dialogue’ meets over designations of terrorists and terror groups through domestic and international mechanisms, reports The Times of India. The ‘India-US design
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India and the United States (US) on December 19 concluded their ‘first dialogue’ meets over designations of terrorists and terror groups through domestic and international mechanisms, reports The Times of India. The ‘India-US designations dialogue’ reflected the shared commitments of both sides to strengthen the cooperation level to tackle the terrorist threat. In June 2017, a joint statement issued post-meeting of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump stated that both nations are committed to strengthen cooperation against terrorist threats from groups including Al Qaeda (AQ), Islamic State (IS), Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), D-Company and their manifestations. The US will hold the ‘second-round’ of this dialogue in 2018.
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December - 21 
Expressing its concern over the collapse of security situation in Afghanistan, India has told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that all ‘safe-havens’ and support to terror groups must end, reports The Indian Express on December
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Expressing its concern over the collapse of security situation in Afghanistan, India has told the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that all ‘safe-havens’ and support to terror groups must end, reports The Indian Express on December 22. “The support for terrorist organisations like the Taliban, the Haqqani Network (HQN), Daesh or ISIS, Al Qaeda (AQ) and its designated affiliates such as Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) from outside Afghanistan, must be forced to stop. The UNSC shares an essential responsibility in this regard in our collective interest,” said Deputy Permanent-Representative of India to the United Nations (UN) Tanmaya Lal during an open debate of the UNSC on Afghanistan.
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December - 23 
According to the analysis of propaganda messages on social media platforms, it seems that Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) have been engaged in competition to spread their propaganda in India and lure Indian Muslim youth
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According to the analysis of propaganda messages on social media platforms, it seems that Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) have been engaged in competition to spread their propaganda in India and lure Indian Muslim youth to join their respective cadres, reportsThe Hindu on December 24. The Indian Security agencies have been monitoring the social media content of ‘Al-Qaraar’— media branch of IS, that has been posting provocative messages on Kashmir issue. On December 3, with a poster threatening India of terror attacks, the Al-Qaraar reached out to leader of Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind (AGuH)—Zakir Musa, said a unnamed senior Security official. Initially, Al Qaraar was only advocating the Sharia (set of Islamic religious principles) but now it started advocacy of IS ideology. The development is being watched closely given IS losses in Iraq and Syria. On November 28, the AQIS released a video where its spokesperson— Usama Mahmoud, called on Muslims in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Kashmir to support and seek revenge for Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.
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December - 25 
The Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has issued an ‘warning’ statement to harm and attack the United States (US) and Israeli embassies, companies, financial institutions, following the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital city of
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The Al-Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) has issued an ‘warning’ statement to harm and attack the United States (US) and Israeli embassies, companies, financial institutions, following the declaration of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel, reports The New Indian Express on December 26. “Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind (AGuH) urges the honourable Muslims across the world to attack and harm US and Israeli embassies, companies and financial and commercial interests. The honour of Bait al-Maqdisis (Jerusalem) will be restored by shedding the blood of Americans, Israelis and it is now the duty of every Muslim, no matter where to restore the honour of Bait-al-Maqdis. The Holy Land must be made a graveyard for Jews, for oppression to end and word of Allah to prevail,” reads the statement issued by AQIS under the banner of AGuH. Following the US’ decision declaring Jerusalem as the Israeli capital earlier in December 2017, the security of the US and Israeli establishments in India have already been elevated but the tourists from these two countries could also be targeted, especially those visiting Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) and Delhi. So far, the AQIS has registered its influence among the Indian youth in South Kashmir, Delhi and Kolkata, said an unnamed intelligence official.
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December - 26 
In a video released online on jihadist forums on December 26th night, al Qaeda said that the key to victory in Kashmir lies in waging war on other Indian cities, reports The Indian Express. “India is already using 600,000 troops just to hold on
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In a video released online on jihadist forums on December 26th night, al Qaeda said that the key to victory in Kashmir lies in waging war on other Indian cities, reports The Indian Express. “India is already using 600,000 troops just to hold on to Kashmir,” al Qaeda’s ‘subcontinent second-in-command’ Usama Mehmood said in the video. “If it is attacked in Kolkata [West Bengal], Bangalore [Karnataka] and New Delhi, it will come to its senses and release its grip on Kashmir.” For this to come about, Mehmood argues, “it is necessary that the jihadi movement becomes strong at the level of the subcontinent, and Muslims in the whole region stand behind the Kashmiri people.” “Look at America,” he says. “In the same way securing itself has become difficult for America throughout the world, the Indian army and Hindu government’s peaceful world should be made a war zone.”The video is made in a form of an interview with Mehmood, wherein he says, "In the caravan of al Qaeda, there were, and still are, many Mujahideen who migrated to Pakistan to fight for Kashmir, but were forced to shut down their operations by the Pakistan Army." The video follows another interview with Mehmood earlier this year, wherein he stated that the organisation’s aim was to "reform Pakistan, Kashmir, India, Bangladesh and the whole of the subcontinent, into an Islamic subcontinent".
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December - 26 
Security agencies said that they have possibly identified the person in a new 14-minute video released by the Al Qaraar media of the Islamic State (IS) on December 25, reports The Hindu on December 27. In the video, a masked man with the black IS fla
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Security agencies said that they have possibly identified the person in a new 14-minute video released by the Al Qaraar media of the Islamic State (IS) on December 25, reports The Hindu on December 27. In the video, a masked man with the black IS flag in the background criticises Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and says various terror outfits - Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) - active in the Kashmir Valley are working as ‘proxies of the ISI’. Agencies suspect the person is Aizaj Ahmed Ahanger alias Ayaz, a local Kashmiri youth who has been introduced as Abu-ul-Braa-Kashmiri in the video. An official said they were yet to trace the location where the video was shot and from where it was uploaded.Criticising the ISI, the masked man in the video said, “You see the irony the ways they have endorsed — strikes, right-to-self-determination .... and many of their filthy ways have no place in deen [religion] … they are the ones bombing believers in Waziristan bowing to America, whose history is drenched with blood of Muslimeen. We declare our animosity and disassociation from your methodologies and Pakistan and declare our disassociation from Hizb, Lashkar, Jaish, Tehreek.”It is said to be the first Kashmir-centric video to have been posted by a media group associated with the Islamist group. The newly created group has been engaged in fierce competition with the al Qaeda to promote its propaganda in India through various messages posted on social media. In the past few months, both the IS and the Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) have been pushing several provocative messages on various social media platforms but the video by the IS was a new development, an official said, adding that AQIS has been routinely uploading such videos.Like posters released on earlier occasions, the IS fighter in the video is inviting former HM commander Zakir Musa and now the head of the AQIS-affiliated Ansar Ghazwat-ul Hind group to join them. Asked why the IS was wooing Zakir Musa, the official said, “On earlier occasions he has shown an inclination towards joining the group.” Ashok Prasad, Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) spokesperson, said, “Security agencies are aware about this particular input and are monitoring it for specific threats.”Another UMHA official suspected the motive behind the video, and said it could well be a ploy by Pakistani agencies to show themselves as “victims of terror”. “They are giving aspirational kind of messages but so far nothing specific in the nature of preventable action has come to notice so far. We have not been able to trace the origin of the video,” said the official. He said there was no credible evidence of the presence of the IS in Kashmir Valley and this could be an effort by the outfit to divert the attention of supporters after it lost ground in Iraq and Syria. The AQIS released yet another video on December 27 featuring two clips on “saffron terror.” One of the clips is three-year-old. Security agencies suspect the ISI to be running the AQIS propaganda since 2014.
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December - 28 
The Indian security establishment is taking the threat issued by the Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in a recent video seriously, as it specifically asks 'jihadi' fighters to target the Indian Army outside its "small, secure area
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The Indian security establishment is taking the threat issued by the Al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS) in a recent video seriously, as it specifically asks 'jihadi' fighters to target the Indian Army outside its "small, secure area of Kashmir" by striking in cities like Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru, reports The Times of India on December 29. "The specific call by AQIS spokesperson Usama Mahmoud, a Pakistani, asking Kashmiri 'fighters' and Muslims across the subcontinent to target the Army in Delhi, Kolkata and Bengaluru so that it 'comes to its senses' is reminiscent of Indian Mujahideen (IM)'s modus operandi of sending out warning letters and e-mails just before terror blasts in various Indian cities. So all necessary precautions are being taken," an unnamed intelligence official said.
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