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Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old Texas man accused of crashing a truck into New Year’s Day revellers in New Orleans, killing 15 and injuring dozens of people, served in the US Army for 13 ...

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Authorities in the United States are investigating the potential significance of overseas trips made by the man responsible for driving a truck into New Year’s revellers in New Orleans ...

Ian Kersting, the assistant attorney general of New Orleans Parish, was found dead by apparent suicide in his office, police said. The 34-year-old was found with "apparent self-inflicted gunshot ...

ISIS-inspired New Orleans terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar prepared ... which officials said have never been used before in a terrorist attack in the US or Europe, NBC News report.

The New Orleans attacker was inspired by ISIS. How much of a threat does the group pose to the US? Despite the New Orleans attack, experts don’t see an elevated threat from ISIS — instead ...

The New Orleans attacker who killed 14 people by ramming a pickup truck into a crowd built two bombs with a “very rare explosive compound”, senior law enforcement officials have said.