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Freed from Camp Bucca, he crossed back into Syria and started fighting against the Baathist Assad regime, doing so with the backing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would later become the founder of ISIS.

Al-Jolani was sent by the leader of the Islamic State group in Iraq at the time - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi - to build up al Qaeda's presence in the country. The US designated al-Jolani a terrorist in ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Samir al-Baghdadi, 46, left, stands on his brother Fayez outside his family’s home that was destroyed ...

Al Naba newsletter, the Islamic State made its most explicit call for jihad inside Sudan, referring to opposing sides of the ...

Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa has risen from rebel leader to interim president, after his Islamist group led a lightning offensive ...

Omar Mateen opened fire on a gay nightclub ... pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook while the shooting was happening. He was killed in a shootout with a SWAT team ...

Key point: The death of the leader of ISIS is a blow but not one that will put an end to terrorism for good. On 27 October, President Donald Trump ...

Abu Samrah is a residential district in Al Ain located at the western end of the emirate. It is a compact village enclosed by farms, dune conservations and shelterbelts. The area consists of villas ...

In 2019, the self-described ‘caliphate’ of the Islamic State lost control of most of its territory in Syria and Iraq. Yet, five years later, the terror group ...