Most of Mansa Musa's wealth came from gold and salt. Abu Bakr, Mansa Musa’s predecessor, was desperate for the Mali Empire to expand. Known as the Voyager King, he personally led thousands of ...

Depending on who you ask in Trinidad, Yasin Abu Bakr is either a respected religious leader, a tireless community worker, or something more akin to a Mafia godfather. Waiting for an audience with ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has not been seen on video for five years The Islamic State group has released a video of a man it says is its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, vowing to seek revenge for its ...

A former spokesman for Nidal's Fateh Revolutionary Council, Atef Abu Bakr, told the Arabic al Hayat newspaper that Nidal had admitted the group was behind the attack on a Pan Am 747 airliner which ...

In the year 655, after the conquest of the Sasanian Empire, the Rashidun Caliphate turned against the Byzantine Empire with ... The third of these, Uthman ibn Affan, Muhammad’s son-in-law, ruled from ...

He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of ... or theocratic leader fit to rule an Islamic empire. While his control of captured oil fields and profits from kidnapping and smuggling ...