ALGIERS, Algeria — A splinter group from al-Qaida's North African branch kidnapped a French citizen and said Monday that it would kill him unless France halts its airstrikes against the Islamic State (ISIS) group in Iraq.
In a video that appeared on social media, a masked member of a group calling itself Jund al-Khilafah, or Soldiers of the Caliphate, addressed the threat to French President Francois Hollande and said the hostage would be killed unless the airstrikes were halted within 24 hours.
The group said it was answering a call by Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani to attack Americans and Europeans. The U.S.-led campaign against ISIS "will be broken and defeated, just as all your previous campaigns were broken and defeated," Adnani said in Monday's statement, according to Reuters. Read more...
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