Hezbollah media: IS leader Baghdadi was reported in Syrian town
A Hezbollah-run news outlet said on Friday that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reported present in the Syrian town of Albu Kamal during...
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IS releases audio of leader Al-Baghdadi
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi exhorted followers on Thursday to stand fast and keep fighting in his first purported audio communication in almost a year during...
Islamic State leader Baghdadi ‘almost certainly alive’
A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said on Monday he was 99 per cent sure that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of...
Iraqi forces make first push into Mosul
Advancing Iraq troops broke through Islamic State defence lines in an eastern suburb of Mosul on Monday, taking the battle for the insurgents’ stronghold into...
Islamic State figures killed in air strike; Baghdadi not believed among them
Several senior figures from Islamic State were killed in an air strike while meeting in a town in western Iraq, but the group’s leader Abu...
Islamic State’s Baghdadi calls on supporters to join him
The leader of the Islamic State militant group that controls swathes of Syria and Iraq issued an audio statement on Thursday in which he called...
Iraq says woman detained in Lebanon is not Baghdadi wife
Iraq’s Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister...
Lebanon detains wife of Islamic State leader – (Update 1)
By Laila Bassam and Sylvia Westall The Lebanese army detained a wife and daughter of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as they crossed from...
Islamic State commanders liable for mass war crimes – UN
By Stephanie Nebehay Islamic State commanders are liable for war crimes on a “massive scale” in northeast Syria, where they spread terror by beheading, stoning...
Islamic State leader urges attacks in Saudi Arabia
By Angus MacSwan Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks in Saudi Arabia, said his caliphate was expanding across the Arab world, and...
Turkey says Syrian town about to fall as Islamic State advances
By Daren Butler and Oliver Holmes Turkey’s president said the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani was “about to fall” as Islamic State fighters pressed home...
As caliphate declared, Iraqi troops battle for Tikrit
By Oliver Holmes and Isra’a al-Rubei’i Iraqi troops battled to dislodge an al Qaeda splinter group from the city of Tikrit on Monday after its...
