Islamic State vows ‘Paris-like attacks’ in other cities

Releases threat video showing images of the U.K. Parliament, Eiffel Tower crashing.

Islamic State (IS) threatened to carry out terror attacks in London, Berlin and Rome — as deadly as the Paris massacre — in a chilling video which shows images of the U.K. Parliament and Eiffel Tower crashing to the ground.

The video shows footage of the Paris and Brussels attacks as well as of the 9/11 strikes, calling the previous massacres a “cautionary message”.

“If it was Paris yesterday... tomorrow it will be London, or Berlin, or Rome. Nations of the cross, this message is for you. Know that your options are few, either you join Islam, or pay tribute, or freeze the war”, warns the video released by the group’s Alwa’ad media arm on Monday.

It also shows other iconic European landmarks such as the Rome’s Coliseum interplayed with footage of executions and beheadings from Syria and Iraq.

The threat has come a week after British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that IS was willing to use “whatever materials they can get their hands on” to attack the West.

‘IS used mustard gas’

IS Syrian Army troops with mustard gas in an offensive against a Syrian military airport in the eastern province of Deir al-Zor that borders Iraq, state media said on late Monday.

Syrian state media did not disclose how many casualties were sustained in the latest drive by the militants to capture the heavily defended airport located south of Deir al Zor city, whose main neighbourhoods are under the militants control. Deir al-Zor is a strategic location. The Province links Islamic State (IS)’s de facto capital in Raqqa with its fighters in Iraq.