Islamic State
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The Islamic State, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist militant organisatio
The Al-Askari Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, after the first attack by Islamic State of Iraq in 2006
The UN headquarters building in Baghdad after the Canal Hotel bombing, on 22 August 2003
Pro-YPG demonstration against ISIL in Vienna, Austria, 10 October 2014
People lay flowers outside the French embassy in Moscow in memory of the victims of the November 2015 Paris attacks.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri, commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Iraqi militant leader and former teacher who was the founder and first leader of the Islamic State,
Islamic State
…widespread use of capital punishment, and the destruction or re-purposing of any non-Sunni religious buildings. Bernard Haykel has described IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's creed as "a kind of untamed Wahhabism". Senior Saudi religious leaders have issued statements condemning IS, and attempting to distance the group…
Mugshot of al-Baghdadi at Camp Bucca in 2004
Al-Baghdadi as a teenager