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Al-Baghdadi gives his first speech, addressing Muslims everywhere. The presenter introduces him as the "Prince of the Faithful"-a title usually reserved for caliphs. December 22, 2006: Abu Omar al ...
U.S. air strikes had already killed most of Baghdadi's top lieutenants, including Abu Omar al-Shishani ... Most of Baghdadi's speeches were distributed as audio recordings, a medium better ...
Nearly 11 months since the last time Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi spoke publicly ... ISIS media released a 46-minute audio message that plays a speech by Baghdadi, according to the militant group.
Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s puppet Islamic State of Iraq, was captured after a two-month-long intelligence operation, Iraq’s prime minister said. Last week, the Ministry of Defense ...
Minutes ago, the Islamic State released a video of the most wanted man in the world, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. No one has seen him publicly since his infamous speech ... of Mullah Omar, the supreme ...
Al-Baghdadi stepped into a leadership role as commander of Al Qaeda in Iraq in May 2010 after his predecessor, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (no relation), was killed in a U.S. airstrike. The new leader ...
After al-Zarqawi’s successor – Abu Omar al-Baghdadi – was also eliminated ... of US-backed Kurdish forces. Most of al-Baghdadi’s speeches were distributed as audio recordings, a medium ...
it was less likely that DNA testing could definitively identify Baghdadi, who emerged on jihadist websites linked to Zawi only about a year ago. “Abu Ayub al-Masri’s face has been out there ...
Hamed Dawood Mohammed Khalil al Zawi, who is better known as Abu Omar al Baghdadi. Image from Talisman’s Gate via al Arabiya. The identity of Abu Omar al Baghdadi, the leader of al Qaeda’s Islamic ...
Al-Qaida in Iraq is struggling to reorganize following the death of several of its leaders at the hands of U.S. and Iraqi forces, U.S. military leaders said. The slain leaders of the Iraqi branch ...
His successors, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, met their end in an attack by U.S. and Iraqi forces west of Baghdad in 2010. All the same, the dearth of information about Baghdad is ...