Who is Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? Can IS survive deaths of its leaders? IS: The full story The secret lives of young IS fighters In a video released from Raqqa a week after the ...

He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of death ... and he wrote a master’s thesis on a medieval commentary on the subject. The young man befriended members of the Muslim Brotherhood ...

Asma Mohammed, also known as Umm Hudaifa, told the BBC she was not involved in IS atrocities The first wife of the late leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...

Born Ahmed Hussein al-Shar'a in 1982 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, al-Julani began his journey into militancy at a young age ... including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, during his imprisonment at Camp Bucca.

“Jolani is young, smart and extremely ambitious ... AQI had rebranded as Islamic State in Iraq under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, later notorious for his brutal attempts to build a caliphate ...

In the spring of 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – the man who would soon become the world ... face of the movement – only now he was presenting himself less as a radical young jihadi than a polished ...

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 regime ...

led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In 2011, a popular uprising against Syria's Assad triggered a brutal government crackdown and led to all-out war. Al-Golani's prominence grew when al-Baghdadi sent him ...

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 ...

led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In 2011, a popular uprising against Syria’s Assad triggered a brutal government crackdown and led to all-out war. Al-Golani’s prominence grew when al-Baghdadi sent ...