Who are Islamic State and is group back after New Orleans attack? [Video]

Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, a US citizen from Texas, said in videos he posted on social media that he wanted to kill the American president, Joe Biden.

The attack is the deadliest IS-inspired assault on US soil in years and the latest example of a vehicle being used as a weapon to carry out mass violence.

Mr Biden condemned the attack in an address to reporters at Camp David but, going into 2025, it reaffirms the threat of the terror group and those inspired by it.

Its fighters repeatedly defeated both countries’ armies and carried out, or inspired, attacks in dozens of cities around the world.

Its then leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed in 2019 by US special forces in north-western Syria, rose from obscurity to lead the ultra-hardline group and declare himself “caliph” of all Muslims.

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