Donald Trump's plan to relocate Palestinians out of Gaza is impractical, immoral, and would feed jihadist propaganda narratives against the United States.

In one key development, the Islamic State of Iraq (later rebranded as ISIS after success in Syria) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...

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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 Al-Hadba or "hunchback" minaret is part of the historic Al-Nuri Mosque from where former IS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in July 2014 declared his "caliphate" that committed atrocities across ...

In one key development, the Islamic State of Iraq (later rebranded as ISIS after success in Syria) head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Al Qaeda central command deployed a young member who had fought ...

President Donald Trump has repudiated efforts by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and White House press secretary Karoline ...

Following the collapse of the Assad regime, Tunisia and other countries are concerned about the return of thousands of jihadist nationals believed to have been held in Syria. Amid overcrowded prisons ...

Key point: The death of the leader of ISIS is a blow but not one that will put an end to terrorism for good. On 27 October, President Donald Trump ...

Pundits like Thomas Friedman claimed that Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman was a reformer committed to liberalization. In reality, the Saudi kingdom remains unflinchingly authoritarian, ...

As a young man, he was radicalized by the bloody second Intifada ... It was also there that he met the founder of the IS and later self-declared Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. When he was released from ...