ISIS claimed credit for the deadly attacks in the French capital, Paris, indicating that the targeted locations were “accurately chosen,” and threatening that the operation is the “first of the storm”.

In a communique published in Arabic and French, and corresponding audios, all of which were distributed on Twitter and pro-IS Telegram channels on November 14, 2015, the IS reported that eight suicide attackers struck multiple sites in Paris, or what it called the “capital of prostitution and obscenity” and the “carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe”. It declared:

“Let France and those who walk in its path know that they will remain on the top of the list of targets of the Islamic State, and that the smell of death will never leave their noses as long as they lead the convoy of the Crusader campaign, and dare to curse our Prophet, Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him, and are proud of fighting Islam in France and striking the Muslims in the land of the Caliphate with their planes, which did not help them at all in the streets of Paris and its rotten alleys. This attack is the first of the storm and a warning to those who wish to learn”.

Full text of the ISIS communique: