Attacks in Paris on Nov. 13 claimed by Islamic State left at least 129 people dead and scores more wounded in the worst terrorist assault in Europe for a decade. Below is a timeline of seminal events in the militant group’s history and leading up to the tragedy that French President Francois Hollande has called an “act of war.”Shortly after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, who was born in Samarra in 1971 and whose real name is Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Al-Badri, helps set up an insurgent group to fight coalition troops February 2004: Baghdadi is arrested and sent to Camp Bucca, where he meets former Baathist military commanders and religious extremists In 2006,...
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