Islamic State leader Baghdadi emerges in new audio months after reports of death... READ MORE›
US-backed Iraqi forces have since defeated ISIL in Mosul, where Baghdadi declared a self-styled caliphate three years ago... READ MORE›
Baghdadi is known to have been seriously injured in an airstrike near Sharqat in Iraq in late February 2015, after which he spent months recuperating... READ MORE›
He also talks of Russian-brokered peace talks on Syria... READ MORE›
The Islamic State is facing a serious crisis... READ MORE›
In Iraq, it is fighting US-backed Iraqi government and Kurdish forces, and Iranian-backed Iraqi Shia militias... READ MORE›
The intelligence sources point to a sharp drop in Islamic State postings on social media as evidence that Baghdadi and his circle have become increasingly isolated... READ MORE›
The ministry said an air strike may have killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and up to 330 other fighters on 28 May... READ MORE›
Systematic abuse Mueller's mistreatment is the latest evidence of the Islamic State's systematic abuse of women on a significant scale... READ MORE›
Baghdadi has become nervous and very careful in his movements, said Talabany, whose services are directly involved in countering Islamic State plots... READ MORE›
DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›
Fleeing residents said there had been heavy mortar fire launched by retreating Islamic State fighters... READ MORE›
The demolition came on Wednesday night as Iraqi forces closed on the mosque, which carried enormous symbolic importance for Islamic State... READ MORE›
By contrast, Baghdadi, born as Ibrahim Awad al-Samarrai' in 1971, comes from a family of preachers and studied Islamic law in Baghdad... READ MORE›
Islamic State supporters said on Twitter that even if Baghdadi had been killed, his self-proclaimed caliphate straddling large areas of Iraq and Syria would survive... READ MORE›
IS supporters have proved ruthless, reportedly beheading several Taliban commanders, and IS' success in taking over swathes of Iraq and Syria underlines the risks to Afghanistan... READ MORE›
The American troops were several kilometers away, the United States military said in a statement, and Iraqi soldiers killed the militants before they could attack... READ MORE›
Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be a deputy of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an airstrike on Friday, an Iraqi intelligence spokesman say... READ MORE›
The Russian military has said it may have killed the leader of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an airstrike in Syria in late May... READ MORE›
The men cleaning up after Isis in northern Iraq... READ MORE›
Iraqi armed forces launched an operation on Saturday to capture the last Islamic State-held enclave in Mosul, according to a military statement... READ MORE›
On Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry appeared to backtrack on the initial claim, saying Baghdadi's death could not be verified ... READ MORE›
The intelligence sources point to a sharp drop in Islamic State postings on social media as evidence that Baghdadi and his circle have become increasingly isolated... READ MORE›
The last confirmed sighting of him was in the Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014, shortly after Islamic State militants occupied the city... READ MORE›
This is where he was able to meet jihadist militants of al-Qaeda in Iraq AQI and to build a broad network of like-minded religious extremists... READ MORE›
Mosul has a population of 1.5 million, much more than any of the other cities captured by Islamic State two years ago in Iraq and neighboring Syria... READ MORE›
After Islamic State militants opened their second offensive against Baiji in December, Capt... READ MORE›
Saja al-Dulaimi, married in 2008 to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, tells Sweden's Expressen she rejects his terrorist ideology and dreams of living in Europe... READ MORE›
The Islamic State IS group has released an audiotape which it says is from its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi... READ MORE›
But it's a worthwhile corrective Hey Islamic State, the Middle Ages called, and they want their metaphor back... READ MORE›
US unable to confirm if Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi among casualties, amid warning that Isis leadership would regenerate... READ MORE›
Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's rise of terror From second-rate schoolboy to world's most wanted man... READ MORE›
The fate of A Islamic State leaderA Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi remained unclear Monday... READ MORE›
Mr Trump did not expand on his charge against The Times, or explain what revelation by the daily is supposed to have hampered Baghdadi's capture... READ MORE›
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