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

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque, known for its eight-century-old leaning minaret, destroyed by Islamic ...

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"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 ...

He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of ... affinity for Quranic recitation into a grandiose claim to be the caliph, or theocratic leader fit to rule an Islamic empire.

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

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

Six years ago, Amir Taheri wrote about Abu Bakr Naji’s strategy ... The ideal for ISIS is to establish the caliphate that will purify Islam, and the world. Naji is applied Qutb.

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

While the development is a blow to the Islamic State, the implications for Southeast Asia’s wider struggle against terrorism are less clear. Islamic State has its eyes on South and Southeast ...