Two men were captured during the US military's raid on Islamic State (IS) leader Abu ... "caliphate" defeated earlier this year, IS militants remain active in the region and elsewhere. Baghdadi's ...

A video appearing to show the IS group leader was released earlier this year The death of Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ... there could not be a caliphate without a caliph ...

I will start with the story of the first rightly guided Caliph, Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (573–634 CE). He was the first Caliph of Islam, who was a close friend and trusted companion of the Prophet.

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead." The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building the Islamic State into one of the most potent ...

He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of death who leads ISIS ... for Quranic recitation into a grandiose claim to be the caliph, or theocratic leader fit to rule an Islamic empire.

Many Muslims believed that Abu-Bakr, the Prophet’s closest companion would be the first Caliph (which means ‘deputy to God’s Prophet’). This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed tha ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, calling for all Muslims to join up and fight for the caliphate. Muslims around the world took to social media to hilariously troll the terrorist leader. Story by Allan Smith ...