Islamic State urges youths to ignite war against the Russia, America

yinka ogunlami 15:01 - 14 October 2015

Militant Islamist fighters hold the flag of Islamic State (IS) while taking part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province in this June 30, 2014

Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said that islamic youths everywhere should ignite jihad against Russians and Americans in their crusaders’ war against Muslim.

The Islamic state group, ISIS in an audio message on Tuesday October 14, 2015 called on Islamic youths to launch a holy war against Americans and Russians.

In the speech by the spokesman of the Islamic State, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani said that islamic youths everywhere should ignite jihad against Russians and Americans in their crusaders’ war against Muslim, Reuters reports

The audio message also confirmed the death of Abu Mutaz Qurashi, which the SITE monitoring service said was a reference to a senior Islamic State official killed in an airstrike in Iraq in August and referred to then as Fadhil Ahmad al-Hayali.

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The audio made no specific mention of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose health and whereabouts became a subject of speculation earlier this week when an Islamic State convoy was hit in Iraq.