The first wife of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi has been sentenced to death by a court in Iraq after being convicted for committing various crimes in Iraq and Syria when the ...

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 ...

Army vet 'helped al Qaeda group in Syria after falling in love with terrorist' MARIA Bell, 53, was arrested by agents with the FBI at her New Jersey home on Wednesday after she allegedly sent ...

Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic State militants in 2017, ...

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The Al-Hadba or "hunchback" minaret is part of the historic Al-Nuri Mosque from where former IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in ...

Freed from Camp Bucca, he crossed back into Syria and started fighting against the Baathist Assad regime, doing so with the backing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would later become the founder of ISIS.

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

Jolani, the commander of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militant group, was reportedly named the country’s new “president” for a “transitional period.” ...

Freed from Camp Bucca, he crossed back into Syria and started fighting against the Baathist Assad regime, doing so with the backing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would later become the founder of ISIS.