President Donald Trump has accused the media of deliberately minimising coverage of the threat posed by Islamic State, saying news outlets "have their reasons" for not reporting what he says is a "genocide" underway at the hands of the group.
The president did not immediately offer evidence to support his claim, made during the new commander in chief's first visit to the headquarters for US Central Command.
Later, the White House released a list of 78 attacks it described as "executed or inspired by" the Islamic State group since September 2014.
The list includes Man Haron-Monis' 2014 attack on Sydney's Lindt Cafe - in which two people died - and the fatal shooting of police worker Curtis Cheng in Parramatta 2015.
Also on the list is the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the Bastille Day attacks in Nice in 2015 and the co-ordinated terror attacks in Paris in November of the same year.
The White House said "most" on the list did not get sufficient media attention, although it did not explain how it defined the term. Some of the incidents on the list received widespread attention and deep reporting.
"You've seen what happened in Paris and Nice. All over Europe it's happening. It's gotten to a point where it's not even being reported," Trump told a group of military leaders and troops during the visit. "And in many cases, the very, very dishonest press doesn't want to report it. They have their reasons and you understand that."
Trump, who has made relentless criticism of the media a hallmark of his presidency, did not explain why he thinks news outlets minimise attention on such attacks.
Later, White House spokesman Sean Spicer tried to tone down the president's remarks, saying it was a question of balance: "Like a protest gets blown out of the water, and yet an attack or a foiled attack doesn't necessarily get the same coverage."
The list includes incidents like the truck massacre in Nice, France, that killed dozens and received widespread attention, as well as less high-profile incidents in which nobody was killed.
The list appeared to be hastily assembled, including several misspellings of the word "attacker."
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