DUBAI, August 6 (RIA Novosti) – The leader of the Sunni militant group Islamic State (IS) is threatening to invade Kuwait to take revenge on the United States, Jordanian newspaper As-Sawsana reported Wednesday.
“We can get even with the United States. We cannot reach them, but they will come to us after we attack Kuwait,” As-Sawsana quoted IS leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi as saying.
According to the Kuwait’s Internal Affairs Ministry, the country’s security forces have already blocked a number of social network accounts which have shown support for IS activities.
Kuwait is monitoring the situation and is trying not to “allow panic or unrest.”
IS was previously known as either the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). On June 29, after weeks of fighting in Iraq and Syria and the seizure of vast territories in the two countries, the group proclaimed itself a “caliphate” and changed its name to the Islamic State.
The group’s leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi has claimed religious authority over all Muslims globally.
The organization was involved in the civil war in Syria, fighting against the government of President Bashar Assad. In June, IS began a large-scale offensive against Iraq’s Shiite government led by Nouri Maliki, aiming to seize Baghdad.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced recently by IS violence in northern Iraq.
The jihadist group has been added to terrorist organization lists by the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia and the United Nations. IS has been accused of multiple killings, kidnappings and torture.
