by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 29, 2017 | Middle East
London- ISIS issued on Thursday what appears to be the first recording in nearly a year of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The message released was his first purported audio communication in almost a year during which his group has lost much of its self-proclaimed...
by Paula Astih | Jul 12, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut – Various reports on Tuesday asserted the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, while the terrorist group did not confirm or deny them as it lost its stronghold in the Iraqi city of Mosul to advancing US-backed Iraqi forces. A source in Iraq’s Nineveh...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 11, 2017 | Middle East
The ISIS terrorist group acknowledged on Tuesday the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi source in the Nineveh province told local media. The details of his death were not disclosed. He added that the group will “soon announce his successor.” The...
by Ghassan Charbel | Jul 3, 2017 | Opinion
The world has remembered three men this week. They come from different continents, different professions, and divergent interests. In the first scene, leaders from around the world gathered at the European Parliament headquarters in Strasbourg, around the coffin of...
by Youssef Diab | Apr 23, 2017 | Middle East
Beirut – Two military landing operations took place in eastern Syria, the same region where Washington announced the arrest of a close associate of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on April 6, Iraqi military and Syrian local sources confirmed. After the raid,...
