Easy Qur'an Reading with Baghdadi Primer ( Paperback )

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a pseudonym. [21] His kunya (teknonym) was Abu Bakr, meaning "father of a young camel". [22] [23] Having at some time taken the name Abu Bakr, al-Baghdadi is thought to have adopted the name of the first caliph, Abu Bakr. During the times when Muhammad [24] might have suffered from illnesses, Abu Bakr was the replacement for leading prayer, according to the Sunni tradition [25] of Islam. [26] His surname literally means "The one from Baghdad" and denotes that he was from Baghdad city or Baghdad governorate in Iraq. [27] On 16 September 2019 al-Baghdadi released an audio message calling for his followers to free detained IS members and their families held in camps in Iraq and Syria. [135] It was recorded and distributed by Al Furqan Establishment for Media Production. [136] Listed as a global terrorist [ edit ] a b c d "Factbox: World reacts to announcement of Islamic State leader Baghdadi's death". Reuters. October 27, 2019. Archived from the original on December 25, 2019 . Retrieved October 27, 2019. Seligman, Lara (October 27, 2019). "Baghdadi is Dead, But ISIS Remains Emboldened Since Trump's Drawdown". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on October 27, 2019 . Retrieved October 27, 2019. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spent five months working with the U.S. government to gather intelligence on Baghdadi's whereabouts, according to Kurdish and U.S. officials. Gen. Mazloum Abdi, SDF commander, was the only foreigner to know about the target, he told Foreign Policy through a translator. His account was confirmed independently by the senior U.S. official.

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Laessing, Ulf; Fahmy, Omar (October 29, 2019). Oatis, Jonathan (ed.). "Islamic State silent on Baghdadi death as it searches for successor". Reuters. Additional reporting by Yousef Saba. Archived from the original on October 31, 2019 . Retrieved October 30, 2019. July 2017: Drone expert and former intelligence soldier Brett Velicovich, described multiple covert missions [175] in which his special operations team led the hunt for al-Baghdadi immediately after they killed his predecessor, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in April 2011. One of those missions described an opportunity to capture al-Baghdadi when he was discovered via drone meeting IS associates in downtown Baghdad⁠—⁠a mission that was ultimately delayed due to State Department rules of engagement at the time. [176] [177] Velicovich was further questioned by Fox News about the reports of al-Baghdadi's death after a Russian government claim of having killed him in Syria, during which Velicovich stated that he did not believe the claims and if he was dead the US Government would have announced it. [178] Zeke Miller; Deb Riechmann; Robert Burns (October 28, 2019). "Trump says U.S. forces cornered ISIS leader in dead-end tunnel". Star-Tribune. Associated Press. Archived from the original on October 29, 2019 . Retrieved October 28, 2019. a b c Chulov, Martin (October 29, 2019). "Nowhere left to run: how the US finally caught up with Isis leader Baghdadi". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 30, 2019 . Retrieved October 29, 2019.

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Assassination of Qasem Soleimani, targeted killing of Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani in 2020.A video, made during the first Friday prayer service of Ramadan, shows al-Baghdadi speaking on a pulpit in the Arabic language to a congregation at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, northern Iraq. In the video, al-Baghdadi declares himself caliph of the Islamic State and calls on Muslims worldwide to support him. [120] A representative of the Iraqi government denied that the video was of al-Baghdadi, calling it a "farce." [96] However, both the BBC and the Associated Press quoted unnamed Iraqi officials as saying that the man in the video was believed to be al-Baghdadi. [121] [122] [123] 13 November 2014 [ edit ] Even before Bin Laden’s death, Zawahiri had established links with groups in Algeria, Mali, Libya, Nigeria, Uzbekistan, Indonesia and Egyptian Sinai around 2006, and with al-Shabaab in Somalia in 2008. In 2009, Zawahiri approved the merger of Saudi and Yemeni militants into Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, AQAP, which proved to be the most loyal and effective of franchises. By this stage, US intelligence called Zawahiri al-Qaida’s strategic commander, relegating Bin Laden to ideological figurehead. Fedschun, Travis (November 13, 2019). "Baghdadi's compound in Syria had Internet until day of deadly US raid, report says". Fox News. Archived from the original on November 14, 2019 . Retrieved November 14, 2019. Estrin, Daniel; Al-Arian, Lama (March 13, 2020). "The U.S. Investigates Possible Civilian Deaths During Baghdadi Raid In Syria". NPR . Retrieved March 9, 2021. Baghdadi's claim to be "caliph" was almost universally rejected by the Muslim community. IS was designated as a terrorist organisation by the United Nations and almost all sovereign states, and Baghdadi was individually considered a terrorist by the United States [13] and many other countries. As leader of IS, Baghdadi led the Islamic State's wars against Iraq and Syria. Baghdadi directed the use of extremely controversial tactics, including the mass use of suicide bombings and the execution of prisoners of war. IS briefly captured substantial territory in Iraq and Syria, but lost all of that territory and almost all of its fighters during Baghdadi's tenure as caliph.