by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 1, 2017 | Middle East
Elusive ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is probably still alive and likely hiding in the Middle Euphrates River Valley, stretching approximately from the city of Deir el-Zour in eastern Syria to the town of Rawa in western Iraq, US Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 18, 2017 | Middle East
Erbil– Weeks after reports about his death, mystery still surrounds the fate of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi especially after the terrorist organization lost its stronghold in Iraq, Mosul. A Kurdish official revealed that Baghdadi is indeed alive and still leading...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 17, 2017 | Middle East
The Syrian Democratic Forces said Monday they had seized a new neighborhood from ISIS in the militant stronghold of Raqqa where the terrorist group’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is allegedly located. The SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters backed by the US,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jul 11, 2017 | Middle East
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had “confirmed information” that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. The report came just days after the Iraqi army recaptured the last sectors of the northern Iraqi city...
by Ben Hubbard and Eric Schmitt | Jul 10, 2017 | Features
Beirut — Three years ago, a black-clad cleric named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended a mosque pulpit in the Iraqi city of Mosul and addressed the world as leader of a new terrorist state. The announcement of the so-called caliphate was a high point for the extremist...
