Experts Say al-Shabab-Islamic State Linkup 'Unlikely'

Boko Haram's loyalty pledge to the Islamic State group has raised fears of further Islamic State alliances in sub-Saharan Africa. Terrorism experts however, say the continent's most powerful extremist force, Somalia's al-Shabab, is unlikely to go down the same path. Al-Shabab has deep ties to al-Qaida -- the Islamic State group's main rival -- going back to the 1990's, when the terrorist network trained some of al-Shabab's most prominent leaders at camps in...

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