France: Priest Killed in ISIL-linked Attack on Church

French President Francois Hollande says the two armed men who took hostages at a church in Normandy had claimed allegiance to ISIL The men killed a priest and injured another person. Al Jazeera’s Emma Hayward reports.

ISIS Claims Responsibility for French Church Attack

A priest has been killed during a hostage situation at a church in northern France, according to a police source. The two attackers slit his throat. Both attackers were killed by police snipers after running out of the church at one point during the standoff, an interior ministry spokesman said.

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Isis Targeting Europe for Paris-style Attacks, Says EU Police Chief

THE GUARDIAN: Europol head says Islamic State seeking to carry out large-scale attacks in Europe similar to last year’s on French capital

Islamic State is actively focusing its attention on conducting large-scale attacks in Europe similar to those last year in Paris, the head of the EU’s law enforcement agency has said.

Rob Wainwright, the head of Europol, the Hague-based organisation that coordinates EU policing efforts over terrorism and organised crime, said Isis had “developed a new combat-style capability to carry out a campaign of large-scale terrorist attacks on a global stage, with a particular focus in Europe”.

His comments, at a meeting of interior ministers in Amsterdam, came as France’s interior minister said Islamist terrorists had planned to attack another concert in Paris and carry out a mass killing in the streets of the capital.

Bernard Cazeneuve was defending the government’s decision to maintain a state of emergency imposed after the shootings and bombings across Paris on 13 November, which left 130 people dead, including 89 at the Bataclan concert hall. Isis claimed responsibility.

Cazeneuve said that since last spring the country’s intelligence services had foiled 11 terrorist attacks, some of which had been ordered by the Islamic State attackers behind the Paris atrocities. » | Kim Willsher in Paris and Peter Walker | Monday, January 25, 2016

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Is This Ex-bouncy Castle Salesman the New Jihadi John? Sister of Anjem Choudary Follower Who Skipped Bail to Join ISIS in Syria Admits British Executioner 'Sounds Just Like Her Brother'

MAIL ONLINE: WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT / British spies race to identify masked jihadi who spoke with English accent / Claims circulate he is British fanatic Siddhartha Dhar, aka Abu Rumaysah / He was arrested in 2014 for supporting radical cleric Anjem Choudary and the banned militant group Al-Muhajiroun / Taunted police after fleeing to Syria with his wife and family while on bail / For more news on the latest ISIS video visit www.dailymail.co.uk/isis / If you recognise the boy or man, email simon.tomlinson@dailymail.co.uk or call 0203 615 1926

Speculation was mounting today that the ISIS executioner dubbed the 'new Jihadi John' is a British fanatic who skipped police bail to join the terror group in Syria.

British security agents are racing to identify the masked militant who spoke with a clear English accent in a sickening new execution video in which he is seen shooting an alleged British spy.

Reports have been circulating that he could be Siddhartha Dhar, a British militant who went on the run with his pregnant wife and family while under investigation by Scotland Yard in 2014.

Dhar's sister also fuelled speculation after saying she believed the ISIS gunman sounded very much like her brother.

The father-of-four from Walthamstow was one of nine men detained on suspicion of encouraging terrorism and supporting radical cleric Anjem Choudary and the banned group Al-Muhajiroun.

The former bouncy castle salesman later posted a picture of himself cradling his baby while brandishing an assault rifle to taunt security services whose blunders allowed him to escape. » | Simon Tomlinson for MailOnline | Monday, January 4, 2016

ISIS' Leader Resurfaces in New Audio Message

It's more than half a year since the world heard from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the reclusive leader of ISIS. Jonathan Vigliotti reports on his latest message.

Czech President: Migrants Should Be Fighting Isis, Not 'Invading' Europe

Milos Zeman's Christmas message was criticised
by the Czech prime minister

THE GUARDIAN: Milos Zeman says children, the old and sick deserve compassion but young single men fleeing Middle East should stay behind and take up arms

The Czech president, Milos Zeman, has called the movement of refugees into Europe “an organised invasion” and declared that young men from Syria and Iraq should stay in their countries to “take up arms” against Isis.

“I am profoundly convinced that we are facing an organised invasion and not a spontaneous movement of refugees,” said Zeman in his Christmas message to the Czech Republic.

Compassion was “possible” for refugees who were old or sick, and for children, he said but not for young men who should be back home fighting against jihadists.

“A large majority of the illegal migrants are young men in good health and single. I wonder why these men are not taking up arms to go fight for the freedom of their countries against the Islamic State,” said Zeman, who was elected Czech president in early 2013.

Fleeing their war-torn countries only served to strengthen Isis, he said. » | Agence France-Presse in Prague | Sunday, December 27, 2015

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The Islamic State, a hardline Sunni jihadist group that formerly had ties to al Qaeda, has conquered large swathes of Iraq and Syria. Previously known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the group has announced its intention to reestablish the caliphate and has declared its leader, the shadowy Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.

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The leader of Islamic State has released an alternative Christmas message goading the West, saying [the] do not dare send troops to their territory.

In a rare audio statement - his first in seven months - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi said Western countries have "learned from" previous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"Crusaders and Jews don't dare to come on the ground because they were defeated in Iraq and Afghanistan," he said in his 23-minute statement.

The leader, who has rarely been pictured and has not been heard from since he was believed to have been injured in an airstrike by Iraqi forces in October, Russian or US-led airstrikes had failed to weaken the group, which was only "expanding and getting stronger".

"Be confident that God will grant victory to those who worship him, and hear the good news that our state is doing well. The more intense the war against it, the purer it becomes and the tougher it gets," he said.

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 caliphate.

He also said Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) would soon be in Palestine to establish an Islamic state there. "Jews, soon you shall hear from us in Palestine which will become your grave," the voice, purporting to be Baghdadi, is heard saying. » | Josie Ensor | Saturday, December 26, 2015