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

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead." The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building the Islamic State into one of the most potent ...

Many Muslims believed that Abu-Bakr, the Prophet’s closest companion would be the first Caliph (which means ‘deputy to God’s Prophet’). This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed tha ...

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

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Who is Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ... His brutal and destructive self-proclaimed IS "caliphate" lasted five years and attracted thousands of jihadists from around the world.

The most visible and amplified claim was that the ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a ... And, did Edward Snowden claim that the first caliph of the Islamic State was born to Israeli parents ...

After the caliphate: Has IS been defeated? Islamic State women defiant in face ... The location of the group's overall leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is not known. But he has avoided being captured ...

From McCoy’s piece: Observers, including British analyst Alastair Crooke, say the “The Management of Savagery” set out the very ideology the Islamic ... wrote about Abu Bakr Naji’s ...

Sunni close SunniMuslims who believe in the successorship of Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali as leaders of the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims specifically set the duties out ...