Les services de renseignement surveillent Daech

Intelligence services monitor Daesh

Great Britain

Quoted by The Telegraph newspaper on November 17, 2025 revealing that Islamic State is using artificial intelligence to recruit foreign extremists, particularly in Britain. According to the report, the group used artificial intelligence technologies, in collaboration with popular social media platforms, to promote its activities and reach a global audience. ISIS members were able to instantly translate and publish Arabic materials, such as the group’s weekly editorials, into dozens of other languages. The materials were then posted on Facebook and other social media platforms, quickly reaching a wide audience, before being monitored and removed. The use of artificial intelligence by this extremist group to attract new followers has raised concerns within British intelligence agencies, which in particular continue to monitor a number of platforms, the same source reported. Britain’s domestic intelligence service (MI5) and Foreign Intelligence Service (MI6) are monitoring the use of artificial intelligence as a propaganda weapon amid fears of a resurgence of Islamic State and al-Qaeda in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. In his annual threat report last month, the director general of Britain’s domestic intelligence service, Ken McCallum, said: “Foreign terrorist groups continue their attempts to direct terrorism towards the UK and Europe. Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are becoming increasingly ambitious, taking advantage of instability abroad to gain a foothold. They personally and indirectly encourage and incite potential extremists to launch attacks in the West. » In addition to using technology to encourage and direct terrorist attacks in Europe, ISIS has reportedly launched a new campaign to recruit foreign fighters to join its ranks in Syria. At the height of ISIS’s expansion and power more than a decade ago, at least 30,000 foreign fighters, including 900 Britons, traveled to the Middle East to fight for the group. More than a quarter of them were killed, and many of those who tried to return were investigated and prosecuted on terrorism charges. But the new recruitment drive, which uses the latest technology, has sparked fears that a new generation of young Britons is being lured to join the group. According to the media, Last week, a south London teenager appeared in court on terrorism charges, after being arrested at Gatwick Airport while trying to board a flight to Istanbul in Turkey. The 18-year-old was allegedly planning to cross the border into Syria and join ISIS fighters there. He has been charged with intent to commit terrorist acts and is due to appear in court later this month. It seems. Four members of the Nigerian security forces, two soldiers and two members of a vigilante group, were killed in an ambush by Islamic State terrorists in northeastern Nigeria, according to a military source and a United Nations security report. Members of the Islamic State West Africa (ISWAB) terrorist group fired heavy weapons at a motorcycle convoy of soldiers, members of an anti-terrorism vigilante group and local fishermen who were patrolling near the village of Wajirku in the Damboa region of Borno state, the sources said. The incident is part of a series of attacks carried out by the terrorist group in West Africa that have targeted Nigerian security forces. “We lost two soldiers and two members of the Joint Civil Task Force in an ambush by ISIS terrorists in West Africa,” a military official told AFP on condition of anonymity. He confirmed that there had been an exchange of fire. Humanitarian agencies in the region cited a UN report on the situation, which gave the same figures, noting that the terrorists seized 17 motorcycles. “A number of soldiers were missing,” he said. The attack highlights the threat ISIS in West Africa poses to the region, despite a dispute with rival terrorist group Boko Haram over control of areas around Lake Chad. Emerging from a breakaway within Boko Haram in 2016, ISIS has become dominant in northeastern Nigeria, primarily targeting military bases and ambushing military forces. However, it is under pressure from Boko Haram, which has driven it from most of the Lake Chad region it controlled. Last Sunday, Boko Haram killed around 200 ISIS fighters in West Africa in an ambush on the shores of the lake, according to intelligence sources and anti-terror militias, it was revealed.

Faouzi Oki