The driver who plowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a New York bike path is a "soldier of the caliphate," the ISIS terror group said on its weekly newspaper, without providing evidence to back up its claim.

The attack Tuesday killed eight people and left more than a dozen others injured.

"One of the Islamic State soldiers in America attacked on Tuesday a number of crusaders on a street in New York City," the al-Naba newspaper reported Thursday. The terror group provided no evidence that ISIS had knowledge of the attack before it happened or it was involved in planning it. The article did not name the attacker.