Fighters watch Isis positions in the airport of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, Iraq. Photo / AP
A newly identified spokesman for Isis (Islamic State) has urged sympathisers around the world to carry out a fresh wave of attacks, singling out Turkish diplomatic, military and financial interests as the Islamists' preferred targets.
Abi al-Hassan al-Muhajer, whose role as the group's mouthpiece was disclosed for the first time
today, also told Isis fighters to stand their ground in the town of Tal Afar, where they are threatened by Iraqi forces.
In a defiant online message, Muhajer described Isis' military losses this year as setbacks and said an array of forces in Iraq and Syria had failed to defeat the jihadists.
He said Isis supporters would target "the secular, apostate Turkish Government in every security, military, economic and media establishment, including every embassy and consulate, that represents it in all countries of the world".
"Destroy their vehicles, raid them ... in their shelters so they can taste some of your misery and do not talk yourselves into fleeing," Muhajer said in an audio recording.
