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Who are Islamic State? Is Isis back after New Orleans attack?

A US army veteran who killed 15 people as he drove into a crowd in New Orleans said before the New Year’s Eve attack that he was inspired by the Islamic State (Isis) group. Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a ...
AOL

Factbox-What is Islamic State, the group implicated in the New Orleans attack?

Islamic State - often called ISIS, ISIL or the pejorative Daesh - has also made its mark in parts of Africa. In Uganda, militants from the IS-connected Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) staged a series ...
The Conversation

Islamic State in Somalia: the terrorist group’s origins, rise and recent battlefield defeats

Before the establishment of the Islamic State in Somalia in 2015, the Somali jihadist group al-Shabaab had established itself in the north. The small group had extensive connections to smuggling ...
Los Angeles Times

Islamic State’s brutal ideology still inspires attacks worldwide

BEIRUT — Screams, carnage — and a black banner. The attacker in the deadly New Year’s truck-ramming strike on revelers in New Orleans’ French Quarter had a black Islamic State flag, the FBI says. Law ...
Boston Herald

What is the Islamic State group and what attacks has it inspired?

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says it recovered the black banner of the Islamic State group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year’s partygoers in New Orleans’ French Quarter ...
Napa Valley Register

13 historic sites destroyed by the Islamic State

The Islamic State group's destruction of a 12th century mosque and its iconic leaning minaret in the Iraqi city of Mosul is only the latest in a long list of priceless archaeological and other ...
Reuters

Blinken warns Islamic State will try to re-establish capabilities in Syria

WASHINGTON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned on Monday that Islamic State will try to use this period to re-establish capabilities in Syria, but said the United States ...