Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi last appeared on camera in ... His religious Sunni Arab family claimed to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe - something generally held by pre-modern ...

Many Muslims believed that Abu-Bakr, the Prophet’s closest companion would be the first Caliph (which means ‘deputy to God’s Prophet’). This is the Sunni viewpoint. A minority believed tha ...

Srinagar, Dec 24 (KNS): Mirwaiz-e-Kashmir, Dr Moulvi Muhammad Umar Farooq paid tribute in profound words to the first Khalifa ...

Who was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? What we know about the ... the group also made clear that he claims to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe - something generally held by pre ...

In the early 2000s, the extremist Islamic State of Iraq - led by Abu Bakr al Baghdadi - grew out of the remnants of al Qaeda. In 2011, a popular uprising in Syria sparked a brutal crackdown by ...

and pushed them from Iraq to Syria to meet with our cells in Syria and set for them the plans and drew for them the policy of work,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-chief of the Islamic State of ...