The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia, conducted an airstrike on several ISIS-Somalia targets in the east African country.
Terror The New Year’s Eve attack in New Orleans, when an US Army veteran drove a truck into a crowd of revellers, has shaken America and raised difficult questions about the rising threat of ISIS-inspired violence in everyday spaces.
The FBI has recovered the two IEDs that the attacker, Shamsud Din Jabbar, placed in the coolers,
The New Orleans attacker had posted videos indicating he was inspired by ISIS before he ploughed New Year's eve revellers in a popular area.
The US on Sunday conducted precision strikes in Syria, killing 37 terrorist operatives, including high-ranking leaders from ISIS.
28-year-old Abdur Rahman, who worked at the MS Ramaiah Medical College, was arrested on Monday in connection with the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) case being probed by the NIA, the investigating officers said.
The ISIS has lost a lot of ground in the Middle East after a series of defeats, but it remains active in Iraq and Syria in a fragmented form.
According to the Special Cell officers, the couple has been allegedly promoting the Islamic State's ideology of hatred and were inciting Muslims to take up the violent struggle against the state.
As per the sources, the couple was planning a suicide attack in Delhi and inciting young Muslim men to conduct terror strikes.
The alert was sounded in Maharajganj, Kushinagar and Siddharth Nagar districts along the border.
