CNN Senior International Correspondent Arwa Damon, who has been reporting on the fight against ISIS from the Middle East, said reports that a Russian airstrike killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi should be ...

(CNN) — Ahmed Al Sharaa, an Islamist militant in his late 20s, moved back to Syria from Iraq in 2011 with six men and a monthly stipend of $50,000 from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who would go on to become ...

In the video, Amri pledges allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and vows to fight “the Crusader pigs.” Anis Amri, a 24-year-old Tunisian, was killed in an overnight confrontation with police in Milan ...

A spy for the Kurds went above and beyond the call of duty to ensure that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s identity was confirmed before this past weekend’s raid, according to the Syrian Democratic Forces.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States wants to bolster a coalition fighting Islamic State in northeastern Syria, a senior State Department official said on Monday, after the leader of the ...