Indian intelligence officials on alert as ISIS gives call for 'lone wolves' attacks worldwide

The Islamic State terror group has called upon ‘lone wolves’ worldwide to slaughter infidels en masse during the holy month of Ramadan.

ISIS spokesman Abu Hudhayfah al-Ansari declared Ramadan as the month of jihad and asked the extremists to mark the 10th anniversary of the declaration of the “Caliphate” by carrying out massacres across the globe.

Notably, ISIS rebranded itself in 2024 during Ramadan.

Al-Ansari made the 41-minute video posted on the messaging app Telegram, which multiple outlets in the UK first reported.

“It is a religious ideological war that will continue until we kill their antichrist under the banner of the Prophet of Allah… tighten the plans and diversify operations: Blow them up with explosives, burn them with incendiary bombs, shoot them with bullets, slaughter their necks with knives, and run them over with buses,” he said in his audio message.

The call was to attack and kill as many Christians and Jews as possible during the holy month of Ramadan, which ends on April 9.

He also heaped praise on Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) for the Moscow concert hall terror attack that killed at least 143 civilians.

Meanwhile, the Times of India newspaper has reported that Indian intelligence has sounded alert and is said to be monitoring the situation closely.

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