The Islamic State’s West African affiliate, known as IS West Africa Province, claimed responsibility for the bomb explosion in Nigeria that killed 26 people, including women and children. The explosions occurred on a busy thoroughfare linking Rann and Gamboru in Borno state, near the Cameroon border, according to Nigerian police spokesperson Nahum Daso’s statement to…
Authorities on Friday said that the man who drove a pickup truck into a crowd of New Year’s revelers in New Orleans had bomb-making materials at his home and had reserved the vehicle for the deadly attack over six weeks in advance.Federal authorities searching Shamsud-Din Jabbar‘s home in Houston discovered a workbench in the garage…
Investigators are now convinced that Shamsud Din Jabbar, the man behind the horrific New Year’s Eve attack in the French Quarter, was not acting alone. Jabbar drove a truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, killing 15 people before he was fatally shot in a gunfight with police.Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan of the…
