Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named his successor. He inherited an organisation that US commanders believed to be on the verge of a strategic defeat. But with the help of several Saddam-era military ...

General view of damaged al-Nouri mosque, where Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared ... Sunni militant group trying to agree on a successor. There has been no official statement ...

A few months before being killed in a U.S. Special Forces raid, Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released a final video message that symbolically passed the torch to far-flung followers in ...

Muhammad named Abu Bakr as his successor, a caliph. Abu Bakr himself died two years later, so a man named Omar was appointed. Shortly after Muhammad's death, the Muslim army declared holy war on ...

Speaking from the White House, Mr Trump said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated his suicide vest after fleeing into a tunnel, chased by US military dogs. Baghdadi came to prominence in 2014 ...

The reason there has been a split into different branches is due to differences in belief about who was the rightful successor to the ... Many Muslims believed that Abu-Bakr, the Prophet’s ...

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The most visible and amplified claim was that the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a 'Jewish Mossad agent' named 'Elliot Shimon' or 'Simon Elliot', among others. Another wild assertion was ...

New drone footage shows what remains of the Syrian compound where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died as US Delta Force commandos raided the secret lair on Saturday By Posted on Oct 29 ...

Las Vegas won’t be the only city with a giant, glowing Sphere. Abu Dhabi is set to become the next location to showcase multimedia entertainment in the unique spherical structure, the Sphere ...