For example, Pelosi also criticized the president’s decision to authorize a raid in Syria in which ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed. Pelosi was wrong in that case and is also wrong in this one.

The so-called caliphate started in a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took advantage of regional turmoil to declare himself the ruler, or caliph, of the Muslim people. At its peak, the caliphate ruled more than 2 million people.

He also touted the killings of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani by U.S. military forces. “Our message to the terrorists is clear: You will never escape American justice.

While the list contains senior members of the organisations, one notable absence is the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. A senior security official declined to provide an explanation for the exclusion when contacted by AFP.

The terrorist group released a video on Tuesday showing eight men, all but one with their faces covered, standing under a black ISIS flag and declaring their loyalty to its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.

“I give my bay’ah (pledge) to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and I am committed to being a soldier for the Islamic State,” he said. When pressed, Cummings wouldn't say if he murdered Von Lanken.

He also made mention of last month's raid against the ISIS terrorist group which resulted in the suicide of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. "Thanks to American warriors, al-Baghdadi is dead, his second in command is dead. ...

Four of the killers also posted videos pledging their lives to the ISIS terrorist group and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. ISIS has not acknowledged the people as members, nor claimed responsibility for the killings.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who declared the caliphate from Mosul in mid-2014, released an audio recording on Sept. 28 that indicated he was alive, after several reports he had been killed.

The city, which straddles the Iraqi-Syrian border, is where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the creation of the group’s self-declared caliphate in July 2014 after the terror group captured territory in northern Iraq and eastern Syria.

If true, this would corroborate earlier reports out of Russia that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in airstrikes in Raqqa during a meeting of ISIS leaders in May.

The rooting out and execution of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (2019), hiding like moles, illustrated how tenacious they were with their own lives, in contrast to their breezy disregard for the lives of their own followers and the innocent

It’s not known whether the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is still alive or where he might be hiding. A military band performs ahead of a ceremony at al-Omar Oil Field marking the U.S.

He also asserted that the administration has "obliterated 100 percent" of the ISIS caliphate, and killed its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. "Then, in a separate operation, we eliminated the world's number one terrorist, Qasem Soleimani," he added.

The complaint said Saipov was particularly motivated by a video where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi — the leader of ISIS — exhorted Muslims in the U.S. and elsewhere to support the group’s cause.

Other video footage shows the suspects allegedly pledging their allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

.— Saja al-Dulaimi, ex-wife of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "He went to work and came home to his family, he was great," she said.

In a video which the SITE intelligence monitoring group said had been posted by ISIS' Amaq news agency, a young man described as the attacker pledges allegiance to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

On July 4, 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi stood at the pulpit in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in the Iraqi city of Mosul and declared an Islamic state (caliphate) under the leadership of a caliph (a religious successor to the prophet Muhammad).

"There are discussions and dialogue between messengers representing Baghdadi and representing Zawahiri," referring to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi and Ayman al Zawahiri, the head of al-Qaeda.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is attempting to rally his followers through an undated audio recording released Thursday, Sept. 28, that urges them to keep fighting despite recent losses.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's air force says it struck a convoy carrying Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group.

(Screenshot) Another Oct. 2 communication claims that Paddock was acting under the requests of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi for the purpose of "targeting the coalition governments."

ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has left the fighting in Mosul to local commanders and is believed to be hiding near the Iraq-Syrian border, according to U.S. and Iraqi military sources.

Qasem Soleimani and ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Bring more troops home. Build a strong cybersecurity defense system and missile defense system.

The militants last week destroyed the historic Grand al-Nuri Mosque and its leaning minaret from which their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate spanning parts of Iraq and Syria three years ago.

Agents arrested Kang the day he pledged his loyalty to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and told undercover agents he wanted to take his rifle, magazines, and kill "a bunch of people," reads the affidavit.

It said he was particularly motivated by seeing a video in which Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who led the campaign by ISIS—to seize territory for a self-proclaimed caliphate within Iraq and Syria, exhorted Muslims in the United States and elsewhere to support

Saipov told investigators he was inspired by ISIS videos, particularly a video of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Abdirahman, 20, surprised federal authorities last month when he told a Hennepin County judge that he sought to answer the call of ISIS leader Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi when he stabbed two men at the Mall of America last fall.