Iraq's Kurdish Regional Security Council announces arrest of top aide of former Islamic State leaderKurdish Regional Security Council captured senior Islamic State figure, Socrates Khalil, a confidant of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, known for mak...
18 May, 2024, 07.17 AM IST
CIA got initial tip-off from one of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's wives and a courier: ReportThe Central Intelligence Agency worked closely with Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence officials in Iraq and Syria to identify more precisely B...
28 Oct, 2019, 07.18 PM IST
How the world reacted to the death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-BaghdadiPresident Donald Trump confirmed Baghdadi's death in a US raid in northwestern Syria, declaring in a televised address that he had died "li...
28 Oct, 2019, 08.02 AM IST
ISIS boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured in airstrike?According to reports, American intelligence agencies have assessed with a high degree of confidence that the world's most wanted man was ne...
12 Feb, 2018, 09.19 PM IST
Elusive ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi escapes again?The liquidation of the leader of the Islamic State al-Baghdadi has not yet been confirmed, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov ...
20 Jun, 2017, 05.19 PM IST
US ups bounty for Baghdadi by more than double to $25 millionThe Department of State released a statement announcing the $25 million reward for the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq ...
18 Dec, 2016, 02.21 PM IST
ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi poisoned during a lunch feast: Media reportsCiting a source, Iraqi news agency WAA said the four are suffering from "severe poisoning" and "have been transferred to an unknown locatio...
03 Oct, 2016, 10.44 PM IST
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured in air strike:ReportsAn Iraqi news channel claimed that local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the Islamist g...
10 Jun, 2016, 06.14 PM IST
ISIS executes 13 top commanders after failed coup plot: ReportThirteen top ISIS leaders, including five high-ranking military commanders, have been executed on the orders of the group's chief Abu Bakr ...
03 Jul, 2015, 09.18 PM IST
ISIS to elect stand-in leader for injured former chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: ReportBaghdadi has been moved from Iraq to Raqqa, two months after sustaining serious shrapnel wounds leaving his spine damaged and his left leg ...
11 May, 2015, 05.19 PM IST
ISIS emir Baghdadi incapacitated by spinal injury?The world's most wanted terrorist, in his mid-40's, is being treated by two doctors who travel to his hideout from the group's stronghold o...
01 May, 2015, 08.57 PM IST
ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead: Radio IranThe enigmatic chief of Islamic State jihadist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, Radio Iran has reported.
27 Apr, 2015, 06.26 PM IST
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi seriously wounded in air strike: ReportAs per the report, al-Baghdadi was injured in March this year in a US-led air attack on the jihadists at al-Baaj district of Nineveh, close...
21 Apr, 2015, 11.32 PM IST
Baghdadi dodged 2014 airstrike due red tape bungle: reportOver 400 km away in the small border town of al-Qa'im, on the banks of the Euphrates, Baghdadi entered a nursery school in the morning
09 Mar, 2015, 01.43 PM IST
US maintaining 'kill list' of ISIS operatives: ReportAnother US official was quoted as saying that al-Baghdadi is well-aware the United States is hunting him, so the belief is he is staying ou...
19 Feb, 2015, 03.31 PM IST
No info if Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in the strikes on ISIL: USThe top Pentagon spokesperson said that the US is targeting to destroy the command and control of the ISIL, but not specifically targeting ...
11 Nov, 2014, 10.39 AM IST
$10 million for information on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: USMilitants from ISIL, which is led by al-Baghdadi, have overrun swathes of territories in northern and western Iraq since early June.
10 Jul, 2014, 09.58 AM IST