In addition, we obliterated 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate and killed its founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Then in a separate operation, we eliminated the world's number one terrorists, by far, Qassem Soleimani.

There are probably going to be ISIS-inspired attacks after this, but the real capability that was resident with [ISIS leader Abu Bakr] al-Baghdadi and his ability to take over that huge swath of territory in northern Syria and Iraq is essentially going

More recently, Islamic State declared a caliphate in an area straddling Iraq and Syria and announced its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as the caliph.

He made a pledge to Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that militants in Kobani were willing to fight to "the last drop of blood." "We are not scared by their warplanes," the fighter said.

His testimony came as the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, said in an audio recording posted Thursday that the organization will fight to the last man.

An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered his followers to immediately launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages inside the countries of the coalition fighting them in Iraq and Syria.

An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered his followers to immediately launch gun and bomb attacks and take hostages inside the countries of the coalition fighting them in Iraq and Syria.

Many walls are covered with graffiti praising the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and the "caliphate" he declared last summer in the broad swath of Syria and Iraq that is under his group's control.

According to Human Rights Watch, or HRW, the ISIS is led by an Iraqi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who aligned his group with al-Qaeda earlier in 2013.

A loss of oil revenue, coupled with a series of high-profile losses and an airstrike against leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi that may have killed him, has weakened ISIS both materially and in terms of perception.

An Iraqi intelligence dispatch warned that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had ordered his followers to launch gun and bomb attacks immediately and take hostages inside those countries involved in bombing ISIS positions in Iraq and Syria.

Boko Haram's cryptic practices are exemplified by their support for Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph and therefore the spiritual leader of Muslims worldwide, yet their declaration of their own caliphate in Nigeria

The political justification for such a military commitment on both sides of the border was not accidental either, since ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his intention to "erase" the consequences of the 1916 Anglo-French Sykes-Picot agreement,

Shortly thereafter, IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" spanning its territory in Iraq and Syria. In May, it captured Ramadi, capital of Iraq's vast western Anbar province, in a humiliation for Iraqi forces.

Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch group has been at the forefront of a propaganda war with the Islamic State group, whose leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a "caliphate" in areas of Iraq and Syria under his control and has spoken of expanding it to other countries

In a statement last November, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced his intention to expand ISIS to the "lands of al-Haramein"—a reference to the holy Islamic cities of Mecca and Medina.

Al-Qaeda has a lot of influence in the rural areas and among the very poor.— Jere Van Dyk, author and researcher The two men behind this fight are Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS; and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of al-Qaeda, and according

Late last year, after Saudi Arabia's young and inexperienced defense minister announced the establishment of a 34-nation Sunni Muslim coalition to defeat Daesh and other groups across the Islamic world, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi mocked the alliance

The prominent theoreticians of current Islamic political fundamentalism – Sayyed Qutb, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, ISIL leader Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi and many other figures in this movement – came from serious academic backgrounds, which even embraced

The video came two days after a recording by the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was uploaded to the Internet. The militant leader warned that the U.S.

"I am sending this message to you, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Quraishi al-Hussaini, the caliph of the Islamic State. I am Shirley Sotloff. My son Steven is in your hands," his mother, Shirley Sotloff, said, reported the Guardian.

In a statement on militant websites over the weekend, the leader of the Iraq wing of al-Qaeda, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, implied that the violence would be directed mostly along sectarian lines.

Unlike famous caliphates of Islam's medieval Golden Age, this one is led by a terrorist, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also known as Abu Du'a, regarded by followers as "imam and caliph of Muslims everywhere" despite Sunni leaders customarily refraining from acting

It is no coincidence ISIL's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared in a July speech after his forces seized the Iraqi city of Mosul that "this blessed advance will not stop until we hit the last nail in the coffin of the Sykes–Picot conspiracy."

The show of IS support in Maan erupted in late June and early July, as Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in the territory his group controls in Iraq and Syria.

A U.S. law enforcement official told The Associated Press that Malik, under a Facebook alias, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) and its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. A Facebook official said Malik praised ISIS in a post at 11 a.m.

The group is currently led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also known as Abu Du'a, who changed the group's name to Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS), according to the U.S.

First, in an audio message released by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed Caliph declared provinces of his "state" and accepted the oaths of allegiance from various Islamic extremist groups across the globe. 

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is going all the way and proposing the reestablishment of the caliphate—albeit in his own twisted and murderous terms.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's rallying cry came in a sermon-like recording, more than half an hour long, released by the militant group's al-Furqan media arm late on Wednesday. It was not clear when the recording was produced.