A look at bloody attacks around the world this Ramadan

The message was part of an unverified audio recording purportedly from Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, a spokesperson for the terrorist group.

The terrorist group has reportedly called for more attacks during Ramadan, a month of fasting and reflection for the over 1 billion Muslims across the world. On Tuesday, twin blasts killed at least four in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

The attacker tried to get inside on a motorcycle.

“Make sure that every one of you spends it, in the name of God on the attack”, he urged, “May it be, God willing, be a month of calamity on the non-believers anywhere, especially by those soldiers and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America”.

The attack will only intensify widespread anger at ISIS, which has already killed thousands of Muslims and displaced millions of people in Iraq and Syria.

As this congregation reaches out, members also know how the bombings may taint how all Muslims are received. But Riyadh has been the target of Islamic State attacks in the past.

Later this month, Carter will convene a meeting of his fellow defense ministers from counter-ISIS coalition nations in Washington, D.C.to assess the campaign’s progress and how to further accelerate it, Cook said.

Others pointed to recent attacks in countries with a majority Muslim population, such as Turkey, Egypt, and Pakistan, and noting that there were Muslim victims in the recent tragedies in the Western cities of Paris and Brussels.

This could be why there has been no claim of responsibility. But for Muslims everywhere, the most inconceivable and abhorrent was the bomb set off on Monday morning outside the revered Mosque of the Prophet in Medina, Saudi Arabia-the second most sacred place in Islam, where the Prophet is buried. At least four security officers were killed and five wounded.

In the past few days some attacks hit various countries.

The attack that took place near the Mosque of the Prophet, one of the two holiest sites for Muslims worldwide, had the fingerprints of ISIS all over it, says Fahad Nazer.

The Bangladesh strike was claimed by the Islamic State group. “Most [of] them had been brutally hacked to death with sharp weapons”, said Bangladeshi army spokesman Brigadier General Nayeem Ashfaq Chowdhury.

Three co-ordinated bomb attacks on government forces killed 38 people in the coastal city of Mukalla in Yemen on June 27 as they were preparing to break their Ramadan fast.

Also on June 28, a hand grenade was thrown into a night club in Puchong, outside Kuala Lumpur, injuring eight.

Cook said that Defense Secretary Ash Carter continues to believe that the best way to defeat ISIS is to go after the group in its strongholds of Iraq and Syria where external attacks are often planned and propaganda generated. What we have witnessed in the past weeks, though, definitively demonstrates to the world this movement is the fruit of a twisted interpretation of Muslim beliefs that in no way can be vindicated as an exercise of faith. A truck packed with explosives was blown up by an ISIS suicide bomber in the busy shopping district. Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the incident, which resulted in 15 dead and 25 injured.

The Islamic State “likes doing new things that other terrorist groups haven’t done”, Gartenstein-Ross said. When police entered the house, the mother was killed but the child was unharmed.

In short, despite many promises, regional states have largely avoided making hard choices on Syria.