'Baghdadi is certainly alive'

The US general who heads the coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Tuesday that he had no information that would confirm or deny claims the jihadists' leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. The post United States says it can’t confirm Abu ...

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that it is verifying reports whether the Islamic State militant group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by its forces on the southern outskirts of Syria's Raqqa.The ministry said the Russian airstrike may have ...

The mosque is hugely symbolic from its pulpit, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in July 2014 declared a self-styled "caliphate," encompassing territories held by IS in Syria and Iraq.

Iraqi forces seize Great Mosque of al-Nuri where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi proclaimed himself Isis leader three years ago

[Russia] , June 16 (ANI): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that there is no confirmation yet that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in one of its airstrikes in Syria last month and therefore has initiated investigations into May 28 ...

U. S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday the United States could not prove that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead.

The U. S. -led coalition battling Islamic State said on Friday it could not confirm a Russian report that the leader of the jihadist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, may have been killed in a Russian air strike in Syria.

By Ahmed Rasheed | BAGHDAD BAGHDAD An Iraqi commander expects to dislodge Islamic State from Mosul in May despite resistance from militants in the densely populated Old City district.The battle should be completed "in a maximum of three weeks", the Iraqi ...

The Pentagon said on Friday it did not have information to support Moscow's claims that its forces may have killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike near the Syrian city of Raqqa last month. "We have no information to corroborate ...