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ISIS claims responsibility for Paris attacks
ISIS on Saturday released a statement claiming responsibility for the horrific attacks in Paris. The terror group carried out apparently coordinated attacks in the French capital on Friday that killed more than 200 people.
Calling the attack “blessed,” an audio statement released online in Arabic and French said that ISIS “soldiers” targeted the “capital of prostitution and obscenity, the carrier of the banner of the Cross in Europe.”
The statement said eight attackers were involved and claimed the attack was the “first of the storm and a warning to those who wish to learn.”
Meanwhile, ISIS leader in Libya killed by US airstrike
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The leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Libya was targeted by US air strike and probably killed, the Pentagon says.
Iraqi national Abu Nabil, also known as Wissam Najm Abd Zayd al-Zubaydi, was a “long-time al-Qaeda operative”, it said.
The strike took place on Friday and targeted a compound in Derna.
The Pentagon said the strike showed that it would go after IS leaders “wherever they operate”.
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