Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last appeared on camera in ... in 1971 in the central Iraqi city of Samarra. His religious Sunni Arab family claimed to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh ...

The Qur'an, God's word as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad, was transmitted in the Arabic language. Initially, the Qur'an was passed orally by huffaz--those who memorized and recited the contents of ...

I’m not alone in the feeling — and I don’t just mean among people who share my politics. In The Times’s report on Sinwar’s ...

The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not mean the automatic ... the SDF is Kurdish-dominated while the area is populated by Arab tribes that reject not only the SDF but also the Syrian army ...

An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a wife of slain ISIS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on charges ... Council said on its website, using an Arabic acronym for ISIS. The slain leader ...

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The battle for Marawi began on May 23, when the Philippine military tried to capture Isnilon Hapilon, the head of a southern militia that has pledged loyalty to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The Cultural Village Foundation (Katara) announced on Thursday the names of winners of the 2024 Katara Prize for Arabic N ...

It is hard to overstate the significance of removing Nasrallah from the scene. He was a singular leader possessing a unique ...

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

Residents in southern regions received messages in Arabic instructing them to move away from known ... Daniel Estrin ...

Residents in southern regions received messages in Arabic instructing them to move ... Daniel Estrin contributed reporting from Haifa, Israel, and Abu Bakr Bashir contributed from London.