ISIS Leader Calls on Fighters to Free Detained Comrades

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ISIS Leader Calls on Fighters to Free Detained Comrades
16 Sep 2019
The Associated Press

BEIRUT  — The leader of the Islamic State group released a new alleged audio recording Monday calling on members of the extremist group to do all they can to free ISIS detainees and women held in jails and camps.

The purported audio by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in which he also said that his group is carrying out attacks in different countries, was his first public statement since April, when the shadowy leader appeared in a video for the first time in five years.

In the 30-minute recording released by a media arm of the group, Al-Furqan, al-Baghdadi asked: "How can a Muslim enjoy life?" when Muslim women are held in camps he called "prisons of humiliation run by Crusaders and their Shiite followers."

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