WASHINGTION: The United States on Thursday offered a $1 million reward for information on Hamza bin Laden a son of late Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, seeing him as an emerging face of extremism.

United States Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Michael T. Evanoff, said, "United States is offering to reward US $1 million for the information leading to the identification and location in any country of the Al-Qaeda leader Hamza Bin Laden.”

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Evanoff added, "Hamza bin Laden is the son of deceased former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and is emerging as a leader in the Al-Qaeda strongholds. He has also released audio and video messages on the internet calling his followers to launch attacks against the United States and its western alliance. The US has declared Hamza Bin Laden as a global terrorist.”

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Hamza Bin Laden, who according to the United States is around 30, has threatened attacks against the United States to avenge the 2011 killing of his father, who was living in hiding in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, by US special forces.

US see the younger bin Laden as a successor to his father for the mantle of global jihad, especially as the even more extreme ISIS group is down to its last sliver of land in Syria.