ISIS calls for attacks on the West during the war in Ukraine

Terrorist organizations Islamic State IS appealed to members and supporters of jihad against Europe and Israel while the West was distracted by the situation in Ukraine, according to an online statement cited by the Times on April 18.

The new IS spokesman, Omar al-Muhajir, made the appeal in a message released to coincide with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The representative of the terrorist organization IS called on its members to arm themselves, calling for a campaign to avenge the death of IS leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi – although he is believed to have been killed earlier this year in an American raid, not by Europeans or Israelis.

Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi is the successor to the founding leader and the target of US airstrikes, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. After Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurayshi was destroyed, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi became the next new leader of IS.

While Western Europe is preoccupied with conflict Russia In Ukraine, Israel is largely on the sidelines. However, Israel has expanded its attacks on the Palestinians, conducting regular raids in the West Bank following two ISIS terror attacks. The increased violence culminated in a confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinians at the al-Aqsa mosque on April 15, in which more than 150 Palestinians were injured.

While the recording talks about the “liberation” of Jerusalem by forming the caliphate – one of IS’s favorite topics of discussion – experts cited by the Times no longer believe IS has the ability to advance. carry out major operations abroad.

In 2019, then-US President Donald Trump announced that he had officially defeated IS with the killing of leader al-Baghdadi. The terrorist organization was pushed back into a relatively small area in Syria, where IS once held important territory, after years of fighting by the Syrian, Russian, Iranian and American armies.

However, an affiliate of IS, known as ISIS-K, carried out the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport in Kabul. Afghanistan while the US evacuated its personnel and withdrew its troops from the country after 20 years of war. A number of attacks in Europe have been attributed to IS supporters, including the brutal murder of UK MP David Aess.