The message was al-Baghdadi’s first since May, and comes amid battlefield setbacks that Daesh has recently faced.
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The Jerusalem Post said neither recording has been verified independently.
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He also called on Saudi citizens – the biggest contributor to Isil ranks – to “rise up” against their government as he dimissed the kingdom’s newly formed Muslim coalition against the group. “The entire world is fighting us right now”. “At the end, it is they who are the losers, not the Islamic State”, he said.
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For Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, this is the flawless time to gather more recruits since he’s slowly losing a lot of supporters through dissention or death.
He talked of expanding ISIS’ operation into Palestine, warning Israel that they haven’t forgotten about them.
He taunted the Saudi-led alliance, saying if it were truly Islamic it would fight the Syrian army, the Russians, as well as Shiites and Jews.
“The leaders of the jihad fighters will surround you on a day you think is far, but we see it as close”.
Nonetheless, in an audio message released Saturday, the Islamist leader interpreted the stunning losses as a “blessing from Allah” that are part of a “pre-destined ordeal”. He made his only public appearance in summer 2014 in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which is held by IS.
The US has promised to send additional special forces to Iraq and Syria to combat the group and, along with allies, has stepped up air strikes. It was the alliance’s second major operation, after clearing IS from some 200 villages in the northeastern province of Hasakeh. In an online message, Sherfan Darwish, spokesman for an Arab rebel group in the SDF, wrote, “Congratulations to our peoples”. Two senior militant leaders were killed and several others were captured, Gen. Sarhad Kadir, a police commander in Kirkuk, said. Also, it was produced by the al-Furqan Media Foundation, IS media arm. It also halted the planned evacuation of some 4,000 people, half of them jihadists, from the southern districts of Damascus.
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Col. Talal Selo said the rapid advance overnight by thousands of troops from the Democratic Forces of Syria had brought the dam, 15 miles upstream from the ISIS de facto capital Raqqa, under their control on Saturday afternoon.
