The Lebanon-based Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade pledged allegiance to Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on June 30, Naharnet reported. On June 29, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant announced the formation of a caliphate stretching from Aleppo in Syria to Diyala province in Iraq.
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