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On 26–27 October 2019, the United States conducted a military operation code named Operation Kayla Mueller that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the ISIS terrorist organization. The operation took place in the outskirts of Barisha, Idlib Governorate, Syria.
The US Department of State's Rewards for Justice Program identified Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as a senior leader of the IS terrorist organization, and as having been "responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians in the Middle East, including the brutal murder of numerous civilian hostages from Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States."
He died of illness after a reign of 2 years, 2 months and 14 days, the only Rashidun caliph to die of natural causes. Though Abu Bakr's reign was short, it included successful invasions of the two most powerful empires of the time, the Sassanian Empire and the Byzantine Empire. He set in motion a historical trajectory that in a few decades ...
An Iraqi court issued a death sentence against a wife of the late Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for working with the group and detaining Yazidi women in her home, the Iraqi judiciary ...
Boubaker ben Habib ben al-Hakim [1] (1 August 1983 - 26 November 2016), also known as Boubaker El Hakim, Abu Bakr bin Al-Habib Abdul Hakim, or by his nom de guerre Abou Mouqatel, [a] was a Franco-Tunisian jihadist who was the highest ranking French officer in the Islamic State at the time of his death.
"Letter to Baghdadi" (Arabic: رسالة مفتوحة إلى أبو بكر البغدادي, romanized: risāla maftūḥa ʾilā ʾAbū Bakr al-Baghdādī, lit. 'an open letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi') is an open letter to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria published in 2014 as a theological refutation of the practices and ideology of the Islamic State of ...
When he was announced as the successor of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, nothing was known about al-Qurashi other than the name he had been given by the Islamic State: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. His Arabic onomastic or nisbah — al-Qurashi — suggested that he, like Baghdadi, claimed a lineage to Muhammad 's tribe of Quraysh , a ...
Following the deaths of Muhammad and the first caliph Abu Bakr (r. 632–634) in 632 and 634 respectively, Umar (r. 634–644) became the new caliph. Continuing the wars of conquest initiated by Abu Bakr, he brought about the almost complete collapse of Sasanian Persia. The Byzantine Empire was restricted to Anatolia and central North Africa. [4]