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  Shia board chief compares Owaisi to Baghdadi

  India | November 17, 2019 11:50 IST

  Rizvi's remarks against Owaisi have come after the AIMIM chief's views on the recent historic Supreme Court verdict in the Ayodhya dispute case. Owaisi has expressed his dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court verdict on the Ayodhya dispute.

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  Turkey captures slain ISIS chief al-Baghdadi's sister in Syria

  World | November 05, 2019 8:41 IST

  Sister of slain ISIS chief al-Baghdadi has been captured by Turkish forces in Syria. At the time of detention, al-Baghdadi's sister Rasmiya Awad was accompanied by five children. Interrogations with her husband and daughter-in-law are underway. Baghdadi was killed in US raid in Syria's northwestern province, on October 27.

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  Injured US military dog returns to duty after Baghdadi raid

  World | October 31, 2019 8:37 IST

  Baghdadi's safe house in northwest Syria was stormed on Sunday by special forces along with military working dogs and chased the world's most wanted terrorist leader as he tried to flee. 

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  US releases video from raid that killed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi

  World | October 31, 2019 7:38 IST

  Giving details of the operation, the American general said the US forces cleared significant debris from the tunnel and secured Baghdadi's remains for DNA identity confirmation.

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  Baghdadi's successor has been killed as well, says Donald Trump

  World | October 29, 2019 19:52 IST

  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday said in a tweet that Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's successor has been killed too.

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  Senior-most woman ISIS operative says she helped CIA to hunt Baghdadi

  India | June 01, 2019 20:16 IST

  Leading international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has requested Sayyaf's transfer from Iraq to the US to face justice for her crimes. She told the UN Security Council in April that Sayyaf "locked them (the captives) in a room, instigated their beatings and put makeup on them to 'prepare them for rape'."

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  Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi alive but injured in 2017 airstrike, say officials

  World | February 13, 2018 9:35 IST

  Baghdadi has made only one public appearance in July 2014 at the al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul, which was retaken by Iraqi security forces in June 2017.

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  ISIS releases purported audio message from al-Baghdadi, calls for attacks on western media

  World | September 28, 2017 22:30 IST

  In the 46-minute audio recording, Baghdadi has called for attacks on Western media and references North Korean threats to the US.

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  ISIS chief Baghdadi still alive: US Defence Secretary James Mattis

  World | July 22, 2017 18:35 IST

  Last month, the Russian military claimed it had struck a meeting of Baghdadi on May 28 near Raqqa, Syria, in which Baghdadi was possibly killed.

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  ISIS confirms death of chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Report

  World | July 11, 2017 18:28 IST

  Today’s report comes a day after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi formally declared Mosul liberated from the ISIS after nearly nine months of fierce fighting to dislodge the extremist militants from their last major stronghold in Iraq.

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  ‘Verifying’ information on Baghdadi's likely death: Russia

  World | June 22, 2017 20:52 IST

  Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said she did not have anything to say when asked to comment on the possible death of Baghdadi in Syria last month.

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  Elusive ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi escapes again?

  World | June 20, 2017 19:08 IST

  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which is a nom de guerre, was born Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al Samarrai. Baghdadi has not been seen in public since proclaiming himself "caliph" in the Iraqi city of Mosul three years ago.

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  Elusive ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi escapes again?

  World | June 20, 2017 19:08 IST

  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, which is a nom de guerre, was born Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri al Samarrai. Baghdadi has not been seen in public since proclaiming himself "caliph" in the Iraqi city of Mosul three years ago.

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  Matter of time before ISIS leader Baghdadi killed: Rex Tillerson

  World | March 23, 2017 8:14 IST

  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said that Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi will be killed as nearly all of his deputies are now dead and it is "only a matter of time" that he meets the same fate.

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  US raises reward amount on ISIS leader Baghdadi's head to Rs 170 crore

  World | December 18, 2016 14:13 IST

  The US has almost doubled the reward amount for information leading to the capture of dreaded Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to Rs 170 crore (USD 25 million), media reports said.

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  Iraqi forces corner ISIS chief al-Baghdadi in Mosul, gear up for final assault: Report

  World | November 02, 2016 18:51 IST

  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-declared caliph of Islamic State has been trapped by Iraqi Army in Mosul, a report claimed today.

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  ISIS suspects funded from Middle East, pledged allegiance to Baghdadi: NIA

  India | July 03, 2016 10:46 IST

  hat the suspects had received several money transactions through ‘hawala’ and that they had also pledged their allegiance to the Islamic State.

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  Al-Baghdadi certainly injured, says Syrian envoy to Russia

  World | June 17, 2016 20:17 IST

  Amid the media reports which emerged last week and claimed that IS chief Abu Bakr-Al-Baghdadi was killed in a US airstrike, Damascus's envoy to Moscow on Friday said, "I definitely know that he (Baghdadi) was wounded".

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  Why Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's 'death' could signal a beginning to the end of the Islamic State

  World | July 11, 2017 19:30 IST

  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) told Newsweek that the monitoring group was informed by Baghdadi's death by the extremist group and that it will soon announce his successor.

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  ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi injured in US-led air strike: Reports

  World | June 10, 2016 19:06 IST

  Chief of terror group Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been wounded in an air strike by US-led coalition forces on one of the group’s command headquarters close to the Syrian border in Iraq.