Linked to this article is the Weekly inSITE on Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) report for August 14, 2018, which provides updates on HTS' daily activities, both civil and military, in Syria, and its multimedia releases.

An Islamic State (IS)-linked group used a screen capture from the New York modification for the Fallout 4 video game to depict a beheading.

The Afghan Taliban announced its decision to rescind its "security commitment" to the International Committee of the Red Cross due to inaction by the humanitarian organization towards a hunger strike at Pul-e-Charkhi prison.

A PayPal account was promoted by pro-Islamic State (ISIS/IS) groups urging donations.

After providing daily updates on its military activities and conquests over the past four days in the capital city of Afghanistan's Ghazni province, including the killing of over 200 Afghan and 10 American soldier, the Afghan Taliban boasted of its success and the "failure" on U.S. strategy in the country.

In a video featuring disabled fighters, including those blind and wheelchair-bound, the Islamic State's (IS) Khorasan Province urged Muslims to immigrate for jihad and not find excuses for inaction.

Al-Qaeda (AQ) promoted reverence for Islamic scholars in Nafeer 27 and urged those scholars who are disparaged to preserve amid adversity.

The Islamic State's (IS) Khorasan Province claimed killing American soldiers in a bomb blast on their vehicle in Nazyan district in Nangarhar, Afghanistan.

Attacks on oil tankers, ports, and other maritime targets were urged on a pro-Islamic State (ISIS/IS) Deep Web forum.

After the Islamic State's (IS) 'Amaq News Agency reported that fighters attacked Nigerian soldiers in the Lake Chad area, the group's West Africa Province issued a formal communique for the operation.

In subsequent posts in a discussion launched by an Islamic State (IS) supporter about maritime attacks on military, commercial, and civilian ships, that user and another examined the targeting of such vessels, especially with the presence of radar systems.

The Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda's (AQ) branch in Somalia, claimed multiple attacks in the country on AMISOM and Somali National Army (SNA) forces, and a bombing on Kenyan Defense Forces (KDF) in Mandera County in neighboring Kenya.