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                    [Title] => Nigeria's Boko Haram pledges allegiance to Islamic State
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Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram Islamic extremists have pledged formal allegiance to the Islamic State group in a message allegedly by the Nigerian insurgent leader posted on Twitter and reported by the SITE Intelligence monitoring service.

[DatePublished] => 2015-03-08 07:04:50 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1424721 [Title] => A look at the Islamic State group's reach into North Africa [Summary] =>

The mass beheadings of Egyptian Christians by militants in Libya linked to the Islamic State group have thrown a spotlight on the threat the extremists pose beyond their heartland in Syria and Iraq, where they have established a self-declared proto-state.

[DatePublished] => 2015-02-17 08:00:29 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1729370 [AuthorName] => Ryan Lucas [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1392065 [Title] => Islamic State group says it'll mint its own coins [Summary] =>

The leader of the Islamic State group has ordered the terror organization to start minting gold, silver and copper coins for its own currency — the Islamic dinar.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-15 02:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1482289 [AuthorName] => Maamoun Youssef [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/world/20141114/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-ISIS-islamic-Militant-Leader.jpg ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1390154 [Title] => Iraqi officials say IS leader wounded in airstrike [Summary] =>

Iraqi officials said Sunday that the head of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was wounded in an airstrike in western Anbar province. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such an attack or on the militant leader being injured.

[DatePublished] => 2014-11-10 08:17:47 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1660518 [AuthorName] => Qassim Abdul-Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1375654 [Title] => 'Islamic State popularity growing in Philippines' [Summary] =>

The appeal of the jihadist organization Islamic State (IS) is gaining ground in the Philippines, particularly among extremist groups in Mindanao, the Anti-Terrorism Council said Thursday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-02 12:40:44 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1212169 [AuthorName] => Camille Diola [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141002/ISIS-5.jpg ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1369702 [Title] => Islamic State group issues new curriculum in Iraq [Summary] =>

The extremist-held Iraqi city of Mosul is set to usher in a new school year. But unlike years past, there will be no art or music. Classes about history, literature and Christianity have been "permanently annulled."

[DatePublished] => 2014-09-16 04:07:25 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1747630 [AuthorName] => Sinan Salaheddin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1344617 [Title] => Iraq says 'terrorists' seize chemical weapons site [Summary] =>

Iraq said the Islamic State extremist group has taken control of a vast former chemical weapons facility northwest of Baghdad, where 2,500 chemical rockets filled with the deadly nerve agent sarin or their remnants were stored along with other chemical warfare agents.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-10 04:12:40 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1289604 [AuthorName] => Edith M. Lederer [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1343456 [Title] => Iraq analyzing tape purported to show top militant [Summary] =>

Iraqi officials are working to determine the authenticity of a video that purportedly shows the leader of the Islamic extremist group that has seized large swaths of the country delivering a sermon this week in the nation's second-largest city, authorities said yesterday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-07 06:05:10 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1747630 [AuthorName] => Sinan Salaheddin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1343139 [Title] => 'Islamic State' top leader makes first public appearance in Iraq in on-line video [Summary] =>

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the man purported to be the top leader of the self-claimed "Islamic State, " made his first public appearance at a mosque in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, according to a video clip posted on the  Internet on Saturday.

[DatePublished] => 2014-07-06 09:01:35 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1281331 [Title] => Iraq announces offensive against al-Qaeda [Summary] =>

Iraqi government forces and allied tribal militias launched an all-out offensive Sunday to push al-Qaeda militants from a provincial capital, an assault that killed or wounded some 20 police officers and government-allied tribesmen, officials said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-21 03:27:15 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1732472 [AuthorName] => Sameer N. Yacoub and Qassim Abdul-Zahra [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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