SITE Intelligence Group

CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State (IS) said the coronavirus pandemic was divine punishment for its enemies, according to an audio broadcast on Thursday, where the jihadists also vowed more attacks.

The person on the tape, which was posted on one of the militants' websites but could not be verified by Reuters, identified himself as IS spokesman Abu Hamzah al-Quraishi.

A lone ISIL  gunman rampaged through a Sikh house of worship in the heart of the Afghan capital, Kabul, on March 25, killing 25 worshippers and wounding eight, Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said.

A few weeks before Thursday’s attack in Barcelona, the Islamic State’s main online magazine posted an illustrated article with advice on acquiring a special kind of truck — specifically, the kind best suited for mowing down large numbers of pedestrians.

At least 35 Syrians were killed and many more wounded in a blast on Oct. 6 at a camp at the town of Atmeh near the border with Turkey.

A blast occurred at around 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 6 at the refugee tent camp in Atmeh, which lies across the border from Turkey's southern district of Reyhanlı, which killed at least 35 Syrians and wounded multiple others, Doğan News Agency reported. 

Two people were killed on Oct. 26 in a suicide bombing at a mosque in the Saudi city of Najran that was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which has repeatedly targeted Shiites in the Sunni-ruled kingdom.

A car bomb near a mosque in Sanaa kills two people, as Saudi-led warplanes bombarded second city Aden, after peace talks end without agreement The explosion in Sanaa, controlled by Iran-backed Shiite Houthi rebels, went off outside the Kobbat al-Mehdi mosque as Shiite Muslims emerged from midday prayers, witnesses and security sources said.

The United States and European powers pressed Libya's rival factions to set an "unconditional" ceasefire at talks restarting on April 13, as two attacks on foreign embassies were linked to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants.

The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group praised the gunmen behind this week's killings at the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo weekly newspaper as "heroic jihadists", a monitoring group said on Jan. 9.

Militants who have seized a large swathe of northern and north-central Iraq now plan to march on the capital Baghdad, a U.S.-based monitoring group said June 11.

In a lightning offensive, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant militants seized Tikrit earlier, its latest success following a spectacular assault late June 9 on Mosul, a city of two million.