ISIS claims responsibility for Belgian machete attack

Belgian police in Charleroi following a machete attack — (Image credit: VIRGINIE LEFOUR/Getty Images)

The Islamic State issued a statement Sunday claiming responsibility for Saturday's machete attack, which injured two police officers in Charleroi, Belgium.

An ISIS representative cited a "security source" to say the assailant, who was killed by police and has yet to be identified, was a "soldier of the caliphate." At the time of the attack, Belgian police tweeted that the suspect was "shouting Allahu Akbar." One of the injured officers will undergo surgery for wounds to the face, but neither is in life-threatening condition.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.