Islamic State tells followers to attack U.S., French citizens

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State urged its followers on Monday to attack citizens of the United States, France and other countries which have joined a coalition to destroy the militant group.

Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani also taunted U.S. President Barack Obama and other Western "crusaders" in a statement carried by the SITE monitoring website, saying their forces faced inevitable defeat at the militants' hands. [...]

Adnani said the military intervention by the U.S.-led coalition would be the "final campaign of the crusaders", according to the transcript published by SITE.

"It will be broken and defeated, just as all your previous campaigns were broken and defeated," he said in the statement, which urged followers to attack U.S., French, Canadian, Australian and other nationals.

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