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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared they had taken control of the town, announcing the end of the "caliphate" in March 2019. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was born in 1971 in Samarra ...

Ibrahim, like the late caliph, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is originally from Iraq. Ibrahim is a convert to Christianity, but he was born into one of the last Jewish families of Baghdad — a community ...

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead." The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building the Islamic State into one of the most potent ...

A member of an Iraqi tribe that claims lineal descent from the Prophet Muhammad, al-Baghdadi turned an early affinity for Quranic recitation into a grandiose claim to be the caliph, or theocratic ...

The FBI says it recovered the black banner of the Islamic State group from the truck that an American man from Texas smashed into New Year's partygoers in New Orleans' French Quarter, killing 15 ...

But it's still a significant slap at ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — who now calls himself Caliph Ibrahim — from a leading religious fellow Sunni. From our morning news briefing to ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last appeared on camera in a video released in April 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and arguably the world's most wanted man ...

US military intelligence officials are sifting through documents discovered at the compound of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed following a US raid in north west Syria on ...