Iraqi prime minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani announced on Friday that Abdullah Maki Musleh al-Rifai, known as Abu Khadija, the leader of terror group ISIS in Iraq and ...

In 2014, former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate over at least a quarter of Iraq and Syria, before he was killed in a raid by US special forces in northwest Syria in 2019 ...

Iraqi Prime Minister Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has said that the head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was ...

The current interim president of Syria, Ahmad al-Sharaa, was previously known as Abu Mohammed al-Golani and fought as an al-Qaida militant in Iraq after the U.S. invasion of 2003, and later fought ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Abu Khadija was killed by Iraqi security forces, with the support of the US-led coalition, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia ...

Baghdad - The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was eliminated in Iraq in ... Confirming the death of Abu Khadija, US President Donald Trump said the ISIS commander and another operative ...

Syria’s interim president on Thursday signed a temporary constitution that puts the country under Islamist rule for five years during a transitional phase. Sharaa said he hoped the ...

Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai, or “Abu Khadija,” was “deputy caliph” of the militant group and as 'one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world' The Tribune, now published ...

Sharaa, seemed to waver between his jihadist past and his presidential present. After the first day of violence he made a ...

Syria’s new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa – formerly known by his nom du guerre Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, and once linked to Al-Qaeda – ousted Assad in a Turkish-backed lightning offensive before ...

Iraq's prime minister has described Abu Khadija as "one of the most dangerous ... The head of Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria has been killed in an airstrike in western Iraq, according ...