Islamic State’s brutal ideology still inspires attacks worldwide
LA TimesA cyclist passes a police barricade near the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd on Canal and Bourbon streets on Wednesday in New Orleans. 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. Islamic State’s deadly reach spread into Europe and beyond, with Islamic State operatives carrying out audacious bombings and shootings in capitals, including Paris and Brussels. Despite continuing pressure from the U.S. coalition and local forces, a U.S. Central Command report in July said Islamic State had claimed more attacks in Iraq and Syria in the first six months of 2024 than it had for the entirety of 2023. A U.S. Central Command statement in September warned that a particular focus for the group was to free the roughly 9,000 ISIS detainees held in more than 20 detention facilities across Syria — what one U.S. official described as an Islamic State army in waiting.
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