(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) France's Foreign Ministry Monday urged its nationals in more than 30 countries to be more cautious after the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released a new, alarming audio message on the Internet, threatening to take violent action against French people.
The Ministry said in a statement that it instructed its embassies in the Maghreb, Middle East and Africa to tell the French nationals in these regions to be vigilant for possible terrorist attacks.
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve rejected, earlier today, the ISIL threats, saying this was not the first time his country had been targeted or threatened by "terrorist groups." Cazeneuve affirmed that these kinds of threats will not weaken the determination of France and its partners to end the abuses by ISIL and help the populations being persecuted by the extremist group.
"France is not afraid. France is not afraid," he stressed.
President Francois Hollande announced on Friday the start of French military operations against the ISIL by targeting logistic facilities of the group in the framework of the international coalition to support Iraq in combating terrorism.
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