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ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – Reuters

ISIS Releases Audio for Baghdadi

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...

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An image from video on a militant website shows ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at Mosul’s Grand al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq in July 2014. (AP)

Conflicting Reports Emerge over ISIS Chief’s Death

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...

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Reuters)

Report: ISIS Announces Baghdadi’s Death in Brief Statement

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...

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. REUTERS/Social Media Website via Reuters TV

Baghdadi Was Here

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...

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US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles taxi the runway after landing at Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, November 12, 2015. (Reuters)

Baghdadi’s Kin Killed, ISIS-Assigned Euphrates Governor Arrested in Eastern Syria

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,...