21 killed in a terrorist attack in Kenya, Al-Shabaab claims responsibility

The Al-Shabaab jihadist group which claimed the responsibility of the deadly terror attack on a Nairobi in Kenya said on Wednesday that it carried out the attack in retaliation for US President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the SITE monitoring group reportedly said. The group said in a statement picked up by the SITE that its fighters stormed the DusitD2 complex on instructions by Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, news agency AFP reported.