Australian police on alert after ISIS threaten national landmarks
Australian police are operating at an "increased level of awareness" around the country's most iconic locations, such as the Sydney Opera House and the MCG, after ISIS referred to Australia as a "land cloaked in darkness" and urged "lone wolf" supporters to target the landmarks. The declaration appeared in the magazine Rumiyah following the death of terrorist, Ezzit Raad, who was killed in the Syrian city of Manbij, near Aleppo.

The Islamic State has issued a vicious and detailed call to "lone wolf" followers to stab, shoot, poison and run over Australians at iconic attractions including Bondi Beach and the MCG.

The latest exhortation from the terrorist group follows the death in Syria of convicted Australian terrorist Ezzit Raad, who was jailed in connection with the 2005 plot to blow up the MCG and features as the latest jihadist poster boy in a new magazine.

In its first edition of Rumiyah published overnight, the terrorist group calls for lone wolf attacks in Australia in a manner of detail not seen before in the group's publications.

"Light the ground beneath them aflame and scorch them with terror," it states, painting the attacks as the way to avenge the death of Raad.