The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to ...

led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. In 2011, a popular uprising against Syria’s Assad triggered a brutal government crackdown and led to all-out war. Al-Golani’s prominence grew when al-Baghdadi sent ...

When Jolani was released from U.S. custody after five years, AQI had rebranded as Islamic State in Iraq under Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, later notorious for his brutal attempts to build a caliphate in ...

Sharaa, formerly known as Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, has been named as Syria’s president for a transitional period.

Ahmed Al Sharaa, an Islamist militant in his late 20s, moved back to Syria from Iraq in 2011 with six men and a monthly stipend of $50,000 from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would go on to become the ...

He also worked with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, head of al-Qaeda's Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS). Later in 2013, Julani announced that his group would be cutting ties with Baghdadi. He also bloody war ...

a former associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the late leader of ISIS. HTS, formerly known as the Nusra Front and once affiliated with Al-Qaida, spearheaded a swift offensive starting November 27.

In 2011, after the outbreak of the civil war, he worked closely with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to establish Al-Qaeda in Syria but fell out with him over the latter's desire to merge the outfit with ISIS.

including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, during his imprisonment at Camp Bucca. In 2011, as the Syrian uprising began, al-Julani returned to Syria to establish Jabhat al-Nusra, which became the Syrian ...