Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the nom de guerre –- or battlefield alias -- of Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri. He was already known to U.S. and Iraqi officials when he named himself as the Caliph in 2014.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader ISIS, had been in hiding for the last five years. (CNN) - A senior administration official says President Donald Trump approved the mission aimed at targeting ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader ISIS, had been in hiding for the last five years. (CNN) - President Trump confirmed the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi this morning during a press ...

News of the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. Special Operations Forces was for me, as it was for many, of real interest. My teams and I have been some of the few who have ...

The likely successor to the now-dead Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is also dead, President Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. According to the president, the unidentified "number one replacement has been ...

Read full article: Iraqi court sentences wife of slain Islamic State leader to death for crimes against Yazidi women An Iraqi court has issued a death sentence against one of the wives of the late ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the cunning and enigmatic black-clad leader of the Islamic State who transformed a flagging insurgency into a global terrorist network that drew tens of thousands of recruits ...

“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death —welcome and important though it may be— is not a catastrophic blow to the quality of leadership in ISIS,” says Michael Nagata, who retired as Army ...

Pentagon releases video of al-Baghdadi raid in Syria 02:25. ISIS is mourning the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and has announced a successor in a new audio release. The group identified ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi assaulted Arizona-born aid worker, U.S. official WASHINGTON -- Before her death earlier this year, American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by the top leader of ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Iraqi jihadist who rose from obscurity to declare himself "caliph" of all Muslims as the leader of ISIS, has died in a raid by U.S. special forces in northwest Syria ...