An image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died on Oct. 26, 2019. (Department of Defense via AP) By Ken Chitwood, University of Florida Just days after the death of Abu Bakr ...

An image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died on Oct. 26, 2019.. Department of Defense via AP Just days after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Oct. 27, the Islamic State named ...

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet for a video released on April 29. (AP) Christian C. Sahner is associate professor of Islamic history ...

In a new speech released earlier today, the Islamic State’s official spokesman announced that the group’s leader, or so-called caliph, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, is dead. He also revealed ...

The taking out of the self-styled Caliph of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by the American Special Forces in Syria, followed by the elimination of the supposed ...

An anonymous nineteenth-century illustration of the AD 638 conquest of Jerusalem by ‘Umar, the second Islamic caliph or successor to Muhammad. (Wikimedia Commons public domain) I related this story to ...

(FPRI) — Since 2016, the Islamic State has lost its caliphate and 98% of its territory, seen its overall operations decline by about 70%, had its coterie of capable commanders and media officials ...