ISIS fanatics flood Internet with propaganda urging New Year ‘lone wolf’ attacks

As people celebrate New Year’s Eve across the globe, ISIS fanatics are flooding the internet with material urging so-called ‘lone wolf’ attacks.

One poster threatens a New Year’s Day attack in New York while another clearly urges attacks in London – with posters showing Big Ben in the background.

An ISIS soldier can be seen standing on top of a building looking out over the New York skyline in one of the chilling pictures.

The image is splattered with blood and reads: "New York 1/1/2019" and a fire can be seen burning through the city.

It says: "And hit them with the explosive belts and vehicle bomb, and shock them with adhesive explosives and packages, and harvest them with silencers and snipers, horrify and terrify the with the intrusions.

"Sheikh Mujahid Abo Mohammed Al Adnani, May Allah accept him".

Another shows a man in a balaclava standing in front of major landmarks such as Big Ben and the Colosseum with text that threatens: "See you in 2019".

A third shows a gun being fired at revellers enjoying fireworks with the slogan: "No bloody we not happy".

And a fourth sees blood pouring from Big Ben as the building nearby goes up in flames.

The hooded man has a finger to his lips and says: "Welcome to bloody years – The lone wolf action".

It comes after ISIS urged all Muslims to ‘kill crusaders in their festivals’ over the Christmas period.

Earlier this month, gunman Cherif Chekatt killed five people at a Christmas market in Strasbourg before fleeing the scene.

He was shot and killed days later – but had recorded a video pledging himself to Islamic State .

The terrorist group, still fighting coalition forces in Syria, wants Muslims to ‘kill crusaders’ over the festive period as they increasingly rely on lone wolf-style attacks.

Donald Trump recently announced that he was withdrawing roughly 2,000 US troops from Syria saying that ISIS had been ‘defeated’.

The decision led to Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis quitting his key role and issuing a scathing rebuke in his resignation letter.

Trump later partially walked back his earlier tweet and said that Turkey had the means to defeat the Islamic State.

The US president has also lost envoy Brett McGurk.

The US special presidential envoy for the global coalition to defeat the militant group will leave his role today.

McGurk, who was slated to leave his post in February 2019, objected to Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from Syria, a person familiar with the matter said, and added that Mattis’ departure had a "significant impact" on McGurk’s resignation.

McGurk was appointed by Obama in 2015 and has been instrumental in shaping Washington’s policy in northern Syria, particularly its backing of Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militia that have been fighting Islamic State with US support for three years.

Trump’s declaration of triumph has alarmed key NATO allies such as France and Germany, who said the change of course on Syria risks damaging the fight against Islamic State, which has now been squeezed to a sliver of Syrian territory.

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