Kayla Mueller, a young American aid worker kidnapped and killed by ISIS, became the namesake and moral reason behind the U.S. mission that hunted down al‑Baghdadi, reminding us that her suffering ...

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 ...

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself in an overnight U.S. military raid in Barisha, a town near the Turkish border in the northwest Syrian province of Idlib. Syrian Democratic Forces ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the elusive and highly secretive leader of ISIS, died during a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday night, President Donald Trump said. Abu Bakr ...

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 ...