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ISIS Leader’s Wife, Child Detained in Lebanon

HeadlineDec 02, 2014

The Lebanese army has detained the wife and child of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the militant group Islamic State, which has claimed swaths of Iraq and Syria. The news comes as the United States has continued airstrikes against the group with at least 55 since Friday. Meanwhile, a U.S. fighter pilot has died in a noncombat crash, reportedly in Jordan.

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