ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi apparently came out of hiding and was seen on video preaching at a mosque in Mosul. Mike Morell, former second-in-command at the CIA, tells Scott Pelley why the ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, sometimes called the “invisible sheikh” because of his aversion to having his photograph taken and who grew up in an Iraqi family steeped in religious fervor, was the leader of ...

"Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead," Trump said at the White House, calling the ISIS leader's removal "the top national security priority of my administration." The President said a US special operations ...

BAGHDAD -- A man purporting to be the leader of the Sunni extremist group that has declared an Islamic state in territory it controls in Iraq and Syria has made what would be his first public ...

Baghdadi's injuries were not considered life-threatening but they did mean he couldn't continue to command the daily operations of the group. At the time, ISIS was about to lose control of the Iraqi ...

In 2019, President Trump sent U.S. commandos to a small village in Syria to kill the leader of Islamic State. On Monday, Syria’s president, a former associate of that leader, will take another step to ...

The woman was found guilty of helping the terrorist group detain and enslave women and girls of the Yazidi religious minority. By Lynsey Chutel and Eve Sampson Allison Fluke-Ekren, a Muslim convert ...