The "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) on Monday (December 5th) presented a new spokesman who urged the group's fighters not to flee, AFP reported.
The new spokesman was named as Abulhassan al-Muhajer, in an audio message broadcast by al-Furqan, an ISIL propaganda organ.
ISIL has said his predecessor Abu Mohammad al-Adnani was killed earlier this year . The Pentagon said a precision airstrike killed him three months ago near the group's de facto Syrian capital of al-Raqa.
In the audio message, the new ISIL spokesman called for patience from the group's fighters and urged them to hold fast and "not to flee" the battlefield, promising "victory".
On November 3rd, ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi broke a nearly year-long silence as Iraqi forces closed in on Mosul, urging the group's fighters to hold their ground in the city against an offensive launched on October 17th.
