IS calls for terror attacks during Ramadan
13 Jun 2017 4:30 AM GMT
Islamic State (IS) terrorist group has called for more terror attacks during the holy month of Ramadan by sending an audio message using secretive messaging app Telegram.
The audio message distributed on Monday was reportedly issued by IS official spokesman Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer, the Mirror reported on Tuesday.
The message praised the attack in the Iranian capital last week when suicide bombers and gunmen left 17 people dead after targeting the parliament building and a mausoleum in Tehran.
"O lions of Mosul, Raqqa, and Tal Afar, God bless those pure arms and bright faces, charge against the rejectionists and the apostates and fight them with the strength of one man," al-Muhajer was quoted as saying.
"To the brethren of faith and belief in Europe, America, Russia, Australia, and others. Your brothers in your land have done well so take them as role models and do as they have done."
Telegram Messenger has become a favoured tool of terrorists to disseminate propaganda due to its impenetrable security.
Trump to hold press conference on counter-IS fight in two weeks
After months of silence on his plan to defeat the Islamic State (IS) terrorists group, US President Donald Trump said on Monday that he would hold a press conference on the counter-IS campaign in two weeks.
"We have had tremendous success against IS in our fight in the Middle East, where we are doing very, very well," Xinhua quoted Trump as saying during a Cabinet meeting at the White House.
"We are gonna be having a news conference in two weeks on that fight, and you will see numbers that you would not have believed. And frankly, if you look back to even six months ago, you wouldn't have believed it was possible," said Trump.
It remained unclear whether the press conference, if there will be one in two weeks, will focus on Trump's plan to defeat IS or simply the "success" against it.
During the presidential campaign, Trump said he would instruct the Pentagon to submit to him within 30 days "a plan for soundly and quickly defeating IS."
Though the Pentagon sent a preliminary plan to defeat IS late February, Pentagon spokesman Jeff Davis said then that the plan was a framework for a broader plan and the details of the draft were kept secret.
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