Mr Trump called Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi a "brutal killer" The president also revealed that, in a break with tradition, Democratic leaders in Congress - including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and ...

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that US Special Forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State, during a raid in the Idlib province of Syria on Saturday.

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Who is Abu Mohammed al-Golani ... one of the wives of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against ...

He relocated to Baghdad in 2002 and worked with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Muhajir and his comrade, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, were killed in Iraq in 2010. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi succeeded them as the head of the ...

2. He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of death who leads ISIS. In 2015, al-Baghdadi, 44, transformed the breakaway al-Qaeda group from a battlefield force operating in the chaos of ...

However, U.S. forces killed al-Zarqawi in the same year, and he was succeeded by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi. The new leader changed the Council's name to "the Islamic State of Iraq", but the group was ...

When Jolani was released from U.S. custody after five years, AQI had rebranded as Islamic State in Iraq under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, later notorious for his brutal attempts to build a caliphate in ...

President Donald Trump announced early Sunday that Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in a US military strike in Syria on Saturday. Al-Baghdadi's killing marks a major victory for US ...

He returned to Syria once the uprising began, sent by the leader of the Islamic State group in Iraq at the time - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi - to build up al Qaeda's presence. The U.S. designated Golani a ...