Intelligence agencies close in on Islamic State caliph
New UN report says growing number of countries are convinced terror group’s leader is trying to hide in Somalia ...
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Iraq's "Hunchback" Of Mosul, Where ISIS Chief Declared A Caliphate, Rebuilt
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’s renowned minaret restored from ravages of Islamic State
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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Person of the Year
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.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Was A Mossad Agent? Israel-ISIS 'Links' Resurface After Moscow Terrorist Attack | Fact Check
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 ...
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How Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose from a radical religious scholar to the brutal leader of the most powerful terrorist group in the world
"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 ...
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ISIS, Abu Bakr Naji, And Applied Qutb
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.
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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 ...