Russia's military claimed Friday that it may have killed the Islamic State group leader in an airstrike in late May. The country's defense ministry said it was verifying reports that Abu Bakr al ...

Al-Baghdadi’s nominal religious qualifications and rigid dogmatism carried him quickly through the ranks, and in May 2010, after the U.S. killed the only two men above him, ...

When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic State of Iraq in 2010, few had heard of the organization or its new leader, then an austere religious scholar with wire-frame glasses and no ...

The killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a big deal in the fight against terrorism—but not as big a deal as President Donald Trump made it out to be in his 50-minute press conference ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the cunning and enigmatic black-clad leader of the Islamic State who transformed a flagging insurgency into a global terrorist network that drew tens of thousands of recruits ...

A plan to free American hostages in Iran ended in disaster on April 24, 1980. The tragedy led to an overhaul of U.S. special ...

Washington (USA), Oct 27 (ANI): United States President Donald Trump said that the founder of ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He said, “Last night the United States brought the world's number one ...

Ali Khamenei was a midlevel cleric who clawed his way up the political hierarchy.

Yet al-Sharaa eventually struck out on his own. He distanced his group from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State’s first so-called emir, ditched the al-Qaida name and turned his organization Hayat ...