The Guardian | Hassan Hassan: Despite losing its caliphate and its leader, recent attacks show the militant group has begun to recover amid international disunity
Over the last two months, Islamic State has carried out a series of large-scale and coordinated attacks in parts of Syria and Iraq. The spike in attacks has renewed fears about the groups ...
MNA A ranking IRGC commander said that Washington aims to play down the role of Resistance Axis in fighting terrorism in the region.
ISIL has been defeated by regional nations and the Resistance Axis and Americans aim to question the role of Resistance in the fight against terrorism and say that we are the one undermining ISIL and fighting terrorism,...
Al-Monitor - Spokesman for Irans Foreign Ministry Abbas Mousavi downplayed the significance of the US operation that led to the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. From our viewpoint this action was not a major one because Daesh [IS] had already been defeated by us and regional countries, Mousavi said on Iranian state television Oct....
Euronews | Frida Ghitis: A deadly U.S.-led raidin northwestern Syria has killed the worlds most wanted terrorist, Islamic State founder and leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who reportedly detonated a suicide vest. On Twitter and during an eye-popping Sunday morning press conference, President Donald Trump practically crowed.
No doubt the president ...
RT - Islamic State leader and the worlds most wanted man Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in a US military operation in northwest Syria. But who was the notorious terrorist? Heres what you need to know.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was the nom de guerre of the infamous mastermind of the barbaric so-called Islamic State (ISIS, formerly ISIL) terror group....
Press TV - US President Donald Trump says Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up, dying"like a dog," and "like a coward" after American forces trapped him inside a dead-end tunnel.
"Last night the United States brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice," Trump said while addressing the media at the White House on Sunday....
Reuters - The death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was not a big deal, Irans information minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi tweeted on Sunday, accusing Irans longtime foe of creating Islamic State.
Not a big deal. You just killed your creature, Azari-Jahromi tweeted.
Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Alison Williams
MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi, reacting to the reports on Baghdadis death in a US military raid, said the ISIL terrorist group had been long defeated by Iraqi and Syrian nations with Irans logistic support.
He said characters like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and other similar terrorists, have been trained and supported by the US ...
Reuters - Iran was informed by sources in Syria that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, two Iranian officials told Reuters on Sunday.
Iran was informed about Baghdadis death by Syrian officials who got it from the field, one of the officials said. The second Iranian official confirmed it.
Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by ...
Press TV - The Takfiri terror group of Daesh has released a propaganda video purporting to show its ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for the first time in five years.
The group released the 18-minute footage via one of its media networks on Monday allegedly showing him addressing a gathering of three. The authenticity of ...
Alwaght - Over the past few days, as the clashes intensified between the US-backed Syrian Kurdish forces and the ISIS terrorists, reports emerged about detention of a number of senior ISIS commanders at the hands of US-backed Kurdish fighters in Deir ez-Zor.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a predominantly Syrian Kurdish force with a small number ...
Press TV - Daesh ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has called on followers of the Takfiri outfit to keep up their terror attacks after the militant group suffered a crushing defeat in Iraq and Syria and lost all the territories it had seized there.
In a purported audio recording in Arabic releasedby the terror groups ...
Press TV - A top Iraqi official says the Daesh Takfiri terrorist groups leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is alive and is being treated in a field hospital in Syria, less than a year after sources announced the death of the notorious ringleader.
We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist ...
Press TV- Iraqi authorities have published a fresh list of most wanted terrorists headed by the name of the fugitive leader of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al-Samarrai aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and his deputy.
Baghdadis number two is listed as Abdel Rahman al-Qaduli rather than his nom de guerre Abu Alaa ...
FNA- The ISIL terrorist group claimed in a statement that its Chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is to return to Iraq soon, a move seen by analysts as a last ditch effort to boost the morale of the remnants of the terrorist group in Iraq and Syria.
The Arabic-language Asharq al-Awsat daily reported that the ISIL statement said that al-Baghdadi is alive ...
IFP- The ISIS terrorist groups leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was said to be killed earlier this year, has reportedly fled from Iraq to Syria in a yellow taxi in a bid to avoid drawing suspicion.
An intelligence source claimed the terror groups chief was hiding out in Rawa, northwestern Iraq, when troops entered Qaim some 50 miles away near the ...
FNA- Iraqi intelligence agents reported that Ayad Talib Abdul Rahman al-Obeidi, a deputy of ISIL leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi in Mosul city, was killed in an airstrike in the town of Tal Afar in Northwestern Iraq.
Ayad Talib Abdul Rahman al-Obeidi nom de guerre Fadhel Haifa was Baghdadi's deputy and the Emir of Military Council of ISIL in Iraq.
Al-...
MNA Abu Ali Basri, the head of the intelligence and counterterrorism department of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, stated that Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader of the ISIL terror group, is likely to be alive and he is hiding nearly Syria's Raqqa.
Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the leader ofthe Daesh terror group (outlawed inRussia), is likely tobe alive and is ...
Sputnik - Daesh terrorists confirmed the group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, Al Sumaria TV channel reports citing a source in the Iraqi province of Nineveh.
According tothe source, Daesh terrorists issued a brief statement inwhich they reported the death oftheir leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, aswell asthe name ofthe "new Caliph."
On ...
IFP - The operation to liberate Mosul from the ISIS terrorists was completed three years after the terrorist groups ringleader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared himself caliph in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in 2014.
After over 1,000 days of incessant fight, on July 8 Iraqi forces managed to fully liberate Mosul following the destruction ...