{"id":22628,"date":"2015-12-28T10:28:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/islamic-state-leader-praises-progress-of-caliphate\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:02","slug":"islamic-state-leader-praises-progress-of-caliphate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/islamic-state-leader-praises-progress-of-caliphate\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic State leader praises progress of &#8216;caliphate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State has released a new message purportedly from its reclusive leader, claiming his self-styled caliphate is doing well despite an unprecedented alliance against it.<\/p>\n<p>In the 24-minute audio posted Saturday, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi says airstrikes by the international coalition only increase Isis\u2019s determination and resolve. He also mocks a recently announced Saudi-led Islamic alliance against terrorism and warns Israel \u201cwe are getting closer to you every day\u201d. He says Israeli Jews \u201cwill hide behind trees and stones\u201d from Isis.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Baghdadi urges Muslims worldwide to join the fight, saying it is their Islamic duty to rise up everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>The authenticity of the audio could not be independently confirmed, but it was posted on Isis-affiliated websites and Twitter \u2013 as have previous messages from the group.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/dec\/26\/islamic-state-leader-praises-progress-of-caliphate\">www.theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic State has released a new message purportedly from its reclusive leader, claiming his self-styled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22629,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22628\/revisions\/22629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}