Hatchet attack on a New York police officer was an act of terrorism

Police commissioner Bill Bratton of NYPD has confirmed that the hatchet attack on a New York rookie police officers was an act of terrorism that had been carried out by a self-radicalized, 32-year-old loner nzherald.co.nz. He had converted to Islam a couple of years back.

The rookie officer 25-year-old Kenneth Healy is in hospital in a critical but stable condition – he was injured in the back of the head during the attack in broad daylight. It happened in a busy shopping area of Queens.
The attack was of seven seconds duration and Zale Thompson, the attacker, charged with a hatchet in his hand – he struck two officers before being shot dead by the two other officers. Incidentally, an innocent bystander, a 29-year-old female, was accidentally shot and is also in hospital in a critical but stable condition.

The attacker does not have any police record in New York but had been arrested six times in California in 2003-04. Incidentally, he had spent three years in the military but was involuntarily discharged in 2003 – probably due to drugs.

Triple car bombing kills at least 28 Peshmerga veterans

Triple car bombing by IS militants have killed 28 Peshmerga veterans and injured another 90 – the veterans were on their way to re-enlist in the fight against Islamic State militants news.sky.com.

As per reports, the attack took place in a government compound in Qara Qubah – the dead included both civilians and soldiers. The actual casualty numbers is still not known because many others are still trapped in the debris.
Islamic State fighters have apparently claimed responsibility for the attacks – in Twitter they have indicated that three of the bombers were non-Iraqis who had been sent from Germany, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
The attack was timed to coincide with the beginning of training that the British Army planned to impart to Kurdish forces on how to use heavy machine guns against the IS.

The attack on the Peshmerga fighters came after a bloody day of violence in Baghdad in which over 45 people were killed in a series of bombings that rocked Iraq's capital city. Three bombs were detonated in busy shopping areas - the first of these killed eight people outside an ice cream shop. And then just meters down the road in the neighborhood of Shaoula, another car blast killed 18 people.
Moreover, in countryside north of the city, a bomber wearing a suicide vest left 11 others fatally wounded.