ISIS Celebrating As If Trump's Their Candidate: New York Times Reporter | Read

Donald Trump, America's President-elect, may have made defeating ISIS his main campaign promise, but ISIS and Al Qaeda platforms are exulting at Mr Trump's victory, says the New York Times' Rukmini Callimachi, one of the worlds leading journalists on the ISIS beat. In an interview to NDTV in New York, Ms Callimachi said, "basically there is a sense of celebration as if almost this (Trump) was their (ISIS') candidate. One ISIS supporter yesterday on Telegram - which is an encrypted messaging service - was posting that Trump's victory is 'poetic justice'."