Thread by @jseldin

BREAKING: #ISIS issues new message to followers - says Allah sent #COVID19 as a punishment for #Daesh's enemies, per @JihadoScope's @einfal

Per @hxhassan, the message is delivered by new #ISIS spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi

https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/1266019995659702273?s=20

#ISIS spokesman Abu Hamza al-Qurashi last spoke on January 27, mocking the #Iraq|i government and boasting f the terror group's staying power

https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1221780322607607808?s=20

DEVELOPING: Just as #ISIS' spox releases the group's latest message, @StateDept announces $3 million reward for Muhammad Khadir Musa Ramadan - a senior ISIS leader & propagandist who plays "played a key role in ISIS's propaganda operations to radicalize, recruit, and incite"

This new speech from #ISIS spox Abu Hamza al-Qurashi comes as #Iraq has been touting successes in its crackdown on the terror group

Earlier this week, @IraqiSpoxMOD said the ISIS governor of Iraq Moataz al-Jabouri, aka Hajji Taysir, was killed

https://twitter.com/jseldin/status/1265290127259119617?s=20

And today,@IraqiSpoxMOD said another operation targeted Abu Saheb, a key aid to the top #ISIS official in #Fallujah

https://twitter.com/IraqiSpoxMOD/status/1266018104435507204

More on #ISIS spokesman Abu Hamza al Qurashi's speech released today from @hxhassan

https://twitter.com/hxhassan/status/1266024592264638466?s=20

The +39 minute speech by #ISIS spokesman Abu Hamza al Qurashi is titled, "And the Disbelievers Will Know who Gets the Good End" per @siteintelgroup translation

It's his 3rd speech since becoming the group's spox last October, following the death of ex-spox Abu Hassan al-Muhajir

Per @siteintelgroup, Abu Hamza al Qurashi juxtaposes the biblical story of the ten plagues w/#COVID19, saying #Daesh's enemies are being punished like Pharoah

#ISIS' Abu Hamza al Qurashi also calls on the group's fighters to escalate attacks on Iran-backed militias in #Iraq

And he slams the #Taliban-US deal, saying it's only aim is to eliminate ISIS-#Khorasan in #Afghanistan

via @siteintelgroup

On #ISIS-#Khorasan, Abu Hamza al Qurashi references November's defeat in #Nangarhar province but says: "their operations...are still continuing in the heart of the capital of the tyrant and in other areas of Khorasan"

via @VOANews translation of audio from @siteintelgroup

#ISIS spokesman Abu Hamza al Qurashi accuses #alQaida in #Africa of trying to stifle ISIS' growth - "Today, they kill those who leave them to join the caliphate"

More: #ISIS spokesman Abu Hamza al Qurashi makes a mention of new leader Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurashi, saying he gave the go-ahead to the latest "battle of attrition" in #Iraq #Syria

Of #ISIS' future, spokesman Abu Hamza al Qurashi says, "what you are seeing today is nothing but indications of major transformations that the Muslim countries will witness in the coming period"

per translation of audio provided by @siteintelgroup