ISIS terror plot to hit New York and Paris subways: Iraqi PM claims French and American jihadis are being trained for attacks on their homelands

Iraq has received ‘credible’ intelligence that ISIS militants plan to launch attacks on subway systems in Paris and the United States, the country’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has claimed.

Mr Abadi said he was told of the plot by Baghdad, and that it was the work of foreign fighters belonging to ISIS in Iraq. Asked if the attacks were imminent, he said, ‘I’m not sure.’

Asked if the attacks had been thwarted, he said, ‘No’ but added that America had been alerted.

He went on to say that the suspects included Islamic extremists originally from the United States and France who have been fighting alongside ISIS terrorists in Iraq.