In early June, a Turkish newspaper reported that Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), is dead. The report, which allegedly ...

Beirut (AFP) - The US declaration of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's death opens the question of his succession at the helm of the Islamic State jihadist organisation and analysts say the list looks short. It ...

The leader of the Islamic State may be dead, but the world is not a safer place according to one former ISIS member. Muhammed Hasik is an Islamic State fighter in prison in northern Iraq. In an ...

Reclusive jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi oversaw the bloodstained rise and ultimate collapse of his Islamic State group's "caliphate" while keeping such a low profile that he was nicknamed "The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A member of the Iraqi security forces stands by a destroyed vehicle that was carrying rockets amdist sacks of flour, in the ...

Deir Ezzor, in eastern Syria, remains largely under IS control even as the group is losing territory elsewhere in the country. The US-led coalition fighting IS in Syria and Iraq said it could not ...

BAGHDAD — The leader of the al-Qaida-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq has been captured in a raid west of Baghdad, an Iraqi military spokesman said Friday. Abu Omar al-Baghdadi was captured Friday in ...