organization, led by Abu Omar al-Baghdadi as its first Emir. Announcing the dissolution of both AQI and the MSC, al-Baghdadi declared that the previous...

28 March 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015. "Bay'ah to Baghdadi: Foreign Support for Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the Islamic State (Part 2)". 27 September 2014...

Yamin Abou-Zand (1986 – 25 March 2017), better known by his nom de guerre Abu Umar al-Almani (Arabic: أبو عمر الألماني; Abū ʿUmar al-Almānī), was a prominent...

June 2006) Abu Ayyub al-Masri (killed in April 2010) Abu Omar al-Baghdadi (killed in April 2010) Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman (head of military shura;...

or Hanbali) and ... also the followers of the Sufism of Imam Junaid al-Baghdadi in doctrines, manners and [spiritual] purification." Having said that...

of Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Mālik al-Zayyāt, who paid him five thousand gold coins. The 11th-century scholar al-Khatib al-Baghdadi dismissed it as "little...

Ayman al-Zawahiri, Abubakr al-Baghdadi, Sayf al-Adel, etc. are the major contemporary figures in this movement. Jihadi Salafi groups include Al-Qaeda...

had left him radicalized. He then returned to Syria and, under the name of Abou Ahmad, organised the Paris and Brussels attacks from Raqqa. Atar was killed...

rap career in 2010, converted to Islam and took on the new Islamic name Abou Maleeq. He left Germany in 2012 for Egypt and Libya, eventually going to...

Hapilon, one of the group's leaders, swore an oath of loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS). In September 2014, the group began...