Jul 13, 2017

The Islamic State group on Thursday said two of its members were responsible for attempted attacks in Paris and Brussels last month.

In a new edition of its multilingual magazine "Rumiyah", released on the group's propaganda channels, IS said it was behind the two previously unclaimed operations which did not kill anyone.

On June 19, a known radical Islamist rammed a car laden with weapons and gas canisters into a police van on Paris's Champs-Elysees avenue.

The driver, 31-year-old Adam Djaziri, died in the attack but no one else was injured.

He had mailed a letter to his family just beforehand saying he had wanted to travel to Syria and complaining he had been stopped from doing so "by apostates against the Islamic State".