ISIS offshoot claims attack on US soldiers
DAKAR, Senegal — An offshoot of the Islamic State group claims it carried out the attack in Niger that killed four U.S. soldiers and four Nigerien troops in October and sparked questions about U.S. military involvement in West Africa’s vast Sahel region.
The Mauritanian Nouakchott News Agency reported Friday that Abu al-Walid al-Sahrawi with the self-professed IS affiliate claimed responsibility for the Oct. 4 ambush about 120 miles north of Niger’s capital, Niamey. The news agency has carried messages from the affiliate before, according to the SITE Intelligence Group, which monitors jihadist websites. the bus was headed from Milwaukee to Chicago. A passenger called 911 and said a man armed with a gun had threatened to kill people on the bus, according to the sheriff’s office in Racine County, Wisconsin, several miles north of Illinois.
Authorities found the bus on southbound Interstate 94 and tried to stop it, but it crossed into Illinois, stopping in Wadsworth, Illinois, just south of the state line.
Lt. Rory Zuerlein of the Kenosha County sheriff’s office told the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago that passengers left the bus, and nobody was injured.
Authorities have released neither the suspect’s name nor his reason for his actions. at least 10 others Saturday.
Police and hospital officials said the blast struck a northern Baghdad neighborhood, targeting a police checkpoint on a busy street, and a number of policemen were among the wounded.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. of 10 round trips daily and nine trips on weekends. It will expand south and north to take passengers from Miami to Orlando.