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                    [ArticleID] => 1358510
                    [Title] => Hezbollah urges Islamic world to put aside sectarian divide in face of IS threat
                    [Summary] => 

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah urged late Friday night the Islamic world to put aside sectarian differences in the face of an "existential threat" imposed by the insurgency of the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq.

[DatePublished] => 2014-08-16 22:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => 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] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1340477 [Title] => Iraq conflict rages on, Obama downplays threat [Summary] =>

Iraqi government troops and armed extremists continued to fight near Baghdad and in Tikrit Saturday, even as Washington downplayed the threat of Iraqi militants.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-29 16:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1337471 [Title] => Iraqi Sunni militants seize large part of key border city [Summary] =>

Iraq's Sunni militant groups have seized large part of a key city near the Syrian border after fierce clashes with Iraqi security forces on Saturday in Iraq's western province of Anbar, security sources said.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-21 20:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1335120 [Title] => US deploys aircraft carrier to Gulf amid escalating violence in Iraq [Summary] =>

US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday ordered the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush to move from the North Arabian Sea into the Gulf, amid escalating violence in Iraq.

[DatePublished] => 2014-06-15 09:00:00 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 1275697 [Title] => Iraqi general: Forces will retake western cities [Summary] =>

A senior Iraqi military commander said yesterday that it will take a few days to fully dislodge al-Qaeda-linked fighters from two key western cities.

[DatePublished] => 2014-01-06 03:00:40 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1747630 [AuthorName] => Sinan Salaheddin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) ) )
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