The purported attack video shows a vehicle kicking up dust as it speeds across flat desert toward what appears to be the Jordanian base. AMMAN, Jordan — The extremist group Islamic State group claimed responsibility Monday for one of the deadliest attacks in Jordan in years, posting a video online that it said showed a car bomb exploding near a Jordanian border post. The border attack came less than three weeks after an assailant killed five people in a shooting attack on a local branch of the Jordanian intelligence agency in a Palestinian refugee camp. After the June 21 attack, it sealed the border, cutting off tens of thousands of Syrian refugees stranded in the area from international aid delivery. Aid officials have said no food and little water have reached two border tent camps, known as Ruqban and Hadalat, since last week.

Source: New York Times June 27, 2016 04:32 UTC