Abu Bakr Atiku (Arabic: أبو بكر أتيكو; 1782–1842) was the third Sultan of the Sokoto Caliphate, reigning from October 1837 until November 1842. Quick Facts Abu Bakr Atiku أبو بكر أتيكو, Reign ...

Abu Bakr was the first Muslim ruler after Muhammad (632–634). Sunnis regard him as rightful successor (caliph), the first of four righteous Caliphs (Rashidun).

Ten years to the day after the formal launch of the U.S.-led operation against the Islamic State, the United States and its ...

leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is likely wounded but still alive and hiding out in Syrian desert regions near the border with Iraq. There have been no confirmed public sightings of the elusive Baghdadi ...

A congressman is raising national security concerns over how an Afghan man who had "unrestricted access" to Taliban ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – A son of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs, the jihadist group announced on Tuesday through its news channel. “Hudayfah ...

In the Christian part of the Iberian Peninsula, the 11th century saw the rise of the kingdoms of Castile and Aragon, the ...

Stephanie Grisham, a former aide to both Melania and Donald Trump, has described asking Melania to denounce the violence at ...

Then President Donald J. Trump, joined by then Vice President Mike Pence and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs a proclamation formally recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan ...

First in Mosul, the Iraqi capital of the "caliphate" proclaimed by Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, where the little girl was put up for sale at $6.000. Then in IS's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa, where she was ...