Iraqi insurgent group ISIS has included India among its Jihad targets. In a Ramzan speech released online yesterday, Commander of the insurgent group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Shams Ibrahim Awwad al-Badri has vowed war against several countries, including India.

The extremist group, which already controls parts of Syria, has seized much of northern Iraq, including the major city of Mosul. The reference to India, the first in an ISIS manifesto, raises fresh concerns for the safety of the hundreds of its nationals trapped in Iraqi cities controlled by the Islamist group, which is battling the governments of Iraq and Syria.

In his speech, Al-Badri said that Muslims’ rights are forcibly seized in China, India, Palestine, Somalia, the Arabian Peninsula, the Caucasus, Sham (the Levant), Egypt, Iraq, Indonesia, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Ahvaz, Iran, Pakistan, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria and Morocco, in the East and in the West.

Earlier this week, ISIS had declared Mr. Badri the amir al-mumineen, or commander of the faithful, and declared him the leader of the Islamic caliphate it seeks to create.