For one year these factions vied for control of population centers in Arabia before those faithful to Abu Bakr emerged triumphant. These conflicts are remembered collectively as the Ridda Wars.
He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of death who leads ISIS. In 2015, al-Baghdadi, 44, transformed the breakaway al-Qaeda group from a battlefield force operating in the chaos of ...
Abu Khadija was killed by Iraqi security forces, with the support of the US-led coalition, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told.