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The elusive chief of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has purportedly appeared for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released Monday by the jihadist organisation. (Photo: AFP)

For first time in 5 yrs, IS chief Baghdadi appears in propaganda video

Baghdadi, 47, had long grey beard that appeared dyed with henna and spoke slowly.

30 April 2019 8:10 AM IST

ISIS has been turning its sights on targets outside its base in the Sinai, putting more pressure on the government and presenting extra challenges for security services. (Photo: AFP/Representational)

Graffiti praising ISIS' appears in Navi Mumbai's Uran, police on alert

Locals from nearby Khopta village spotted the message, written with a black marker pen, and alerted police.

5 Jun 2019 10:41 AM IST

The new leader of the Islamic State group is a nobody with little apparent reputation but the United States hopes he will be killed soon, a US official said Wednesday. (Representational Image/ File)

Islamic State group announces death of leader

Speaking in an audio message, the spokesman identified the group's new leader as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi

30 Nov 2022 9:54 PM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

Islamic State leader Baghdadi resurfaces, urges supporters to attack...

Baghdadi's speech was mainly focused on decline of American influence around the world and claimed credit on behalf of...

23 Aug 2018 2:00 PM IST

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called for attacks in the West in the Telegram message on Eid al-Adha, which comes as ISIS has lost most of its territory in Iraq and Syria. (Photo: AFP)

ISIS chief Baghdadi urges Muslims to wage 'jihad' in purported new...

It is the first purported recording of the ISIS leader to be released since September last year.

23 Aug 2018 10:03 AM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

We have information that ISIS leader Baghdadi is alive: Kurdish...

The official said that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located in southern Syria in the city of Raqqa.

17 July 2017 2:19 PM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Photo: AP)

Pentagon chief says US has no proof of ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's death

Baghdadi has kept a low profile but was rumored to move regularly throughout ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria.

14 July 2017 9:04 PM IST

ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Photo: AP)

Now, Syria monitor says ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead; US...

Russia's military said in mid-June that it was seeking to verify whether it had killed the ISIS chief in an air strike...

11 July 2017 6:56 PM IST

US President Donald Trump thanks the audience at the end of joints statements with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Photo: PTI)

Trump congratulates Iraqis on liberation of Mosul from ISIS

The US-led coalition that backed the Mosul offensive is supporting another assault on ISIS's Syrian bastion Raqa.

11 July 2017 3:44 PM IST

The clip surfaced after a recent move by Hurriyat leaders to downplay fears of the growing influence of the ISIS in the Valley. (Photo: AP)

Will Taliban gain as ISIS on its last legs?

It possessed territory, access to sources of revenue like oilfields (in Mosul), a fighting army, and administrative and...

4 July 2017 5:39 AM IST

Islamic state fighters. (Photo: Representational Image/AFP)

Jihad to proliferate despite blow to ISIS

The battle to recapture Mosul, Iraq's second city and ISIS' capital, began in October last year.

5 July 2017 2:28 AM IST

ISIS chief's death inevitable as pressure mounts on jihadists: US...

The US Secretary of State said that most of Abu Bakr Baghdadi's deputies as well as those behind the Brussels and Paris...

22 March 2017 8:37 PM IST