TUN130214AA001TUNIS —A series of deadly terrorist attacks in the past week across Europe, Africa and the Middle East underscore the Islamic State's increasing ability to spread fear, change societies and impact economies since declaring a caliphate a year ago.

Authorities from Australia to Pakistan and Afghanistan to Europe have looked on with increasing alarm at the militants' reach since the group seized more than a third of Syria and Iraq last summer.

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