Islamist leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani, who led a lightning offensive through Syria, has a long history of extremism despite a recent appeal to moderate policies. "Golani is a specially designated ...

During that time, al-Qaeda usurped like-minded groups and formed the extremist Islamic State of Iraq, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Al-Golani's prominence grew when al-Baghdadi sent him to Syria to ...

and pushed them from Iraq to Syria to meet with our cells in Syria and set for them the plans and drew for them the policy of work,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-chief of the Islamic State of ...

Insurgents control the capital Damascus, President Bashar Assad has fled into hiding, and for the first time after 50 years of his family's iron hand, it is an open question how Syria will be governed ...

In the early 2000s, the extremist Islamic State of Iraq - led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi - grew out of the remnants of al Qaeda. In 2011, a popular uprising in Syria sparked a brutal crackdown by ...

scions like Abu Musab al-Zarqarwi who blew up Iraq, and even Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi, first Caliph and founder of the Islamic State in Iraq in 2014. From establishing his power base in Idlib in 2015 ...

During that time, al-Qaida usurped like-minded groups and formed the extremist Islamic State of Iraq, led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In 2011, a popular uprising in Syria against Assad triggered a ...

In 2011, under the direction of Iraqi militant and then-al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al-Golani was tasked with establishing the Nusra Front in Syria. The group quickly became a ...

The Israeli military has not confirmed to CNN whether Abu Safiya is being held at the facility. Ahmad Al Sayyed Saleem, 18, said a doctor from the Abu Safiya family was brought into the prison on ...

Syria civil war: Syrian rebels, who rekindled the rebel insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad-led regime late last month, have since captured three major cities — Aleppo, Hama, and more ...

Although allied with former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, al-Golani’s forces eventually fought with the Islamic State after al-Baghdadi severed ties with al-Qaida and ordered all ...