Open source reporting and extremist channel commentary portray Zangi as a high interest encrypted messenger with limited transparency, broad device permissions, and increasing visibility in criminal and regulatory contexts.

ISIS-linked media released a Kurdish-language statement and poster claiming a symbolic flag-raising in the mountains of Kurdistan, aimed at projecting ideological persistence rather than signaling confirmed operational activity.

Extremist users in a TechHaven chat openly discussed large scale explosive attacks, evasion of law enforcement monitoring, and the use of uncensored AI tools to obtain bomb making guidance.

Nida e Khorasan issue 13 advances Islamic State aligned propaganda that rejects democracy, urges financial support to jihad, criticizes Taliban religious legitimacy, and promotes conflict and martyr narratives.

ISIS aligned media accounts promoted a new English language poster encouraging lone actor attacks using vehicles and blunt weapons framed as religiously justified violence.

The ISIS editorial declares Iraq’s elections an act of disbelief, portrays all political factions as foreign controlled apostates, and urges Iraqis to abandon democracy in favor of jihad.