Sudanese Salafi group endorses Islamic State's new caliphate

THE recent declaration of a caliphate by the militant group the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is an unprecedented event in modern times. Regardless of how it turns out, one thing is clear: violent jihadism is now an entrenched ...

, after a heated debate, the Turkish National Assembly abolished the office of the caliphate that had remained with the Ottomans for centuries. Four months earlier, on Nov 1, 1922, Kemal Ataturk had abolished the monarchy and dispatched into exile ...

BY William Dalrymple On 3 March 1924, the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul was surrounded by Republican Turkish troops. Inside, the last Ottoman caliph, Abdülmecid II, was reading the essays of Montaigne. Late that night, the prefect of police came ...

LAGOS: The head of Nigeria's Boko Haram Islamists, Abubakar Shekau, has voiced support for the extremist Sunni Islamic State (IS) militant group, which has taken over large swathes of Iraq and Syria, in a new video seen Sunday. My brethren... may ...

Aninfamous jihadist warlord fighting inthe Middle East andknown as "Omar theChechen" actually hails fromthe Christian nation ofGeorgia, anews report said Friday. Thered-bearded Omar al Shishani, which translates as Omar theChechen, has become one ...

Damascus: The militant group ISIS has took control of a major Syrian oil field on Iraqi border. By seizing the Al-Omar oil field, it now controls most oil and gas fields in the oil-rich Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. IS took control of the Al-Omar ...

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is a successor of the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), which Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi (born Hamid Dawud al Zawi) established in 2006. In April 2010, Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi and ISI War Minister Abu Hamza Al-Muhajir ...

NEW YORK, July 4 (RIA Novosti) With an ethnic Chechen Omar Shishani coming to the spotlight in ISIS's activities in Iraq, analysts say Chechen war was an attempt by the Western countries to destabilize Russia through the Caucasus. With his ...

Cross-posted from Asia Times A still photo from a video that the IS claims is for their leader Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi (image by Asia Times ) So The Caliph is now a global superstar. Ever since Dr Ibrahim al-Badri of Samarra, a minor Sunni cleric ...