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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not mean the automatic ... IS is likely to choose a successor to Baghdadi, but what is more significant for its operations is the situation in the north ...

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 ...

STORY: A Lebanese security source said on Saturday (October 5) that the man thought likely to be taking over as Hezbollah's ...

Hamas is likely to name Qatar-based Khalil al-Hayya as a successor to slain leader Yayha Sinwar, aligning it closer to Iran ...

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 ...

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