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BAGHDAD (AP) -- 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.

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JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israel's prime minister vowed not to change worship arrangements at Jerusalem's most sensitive religious site Sunday, calling for calm and restraint amid rising tensions in the city.

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MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) -- With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, dashing hopes for their freedom.

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Declaring the world at a crossroads between war and peace, President Barack Obama vowed at the U.N. on Wednesday to lead a coalition to dismantle an Islamic State "network of death" that has wreaked havoc in the Middle East and drawn the U.S. back into military action

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LONDON (AP) -- Now it's Britain's turn to mourn.

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LONDON (AP) - Prime Minister David Cameron is summoning military and security chiefs for an emergency meeting Sunday in response to the beheading of a British hostage and a threat against another.

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Text of President Barack Obama's address Wednesday night on the Islamic State strategy, as prepared for delivery and provided by the White House:

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