To the United States, 43-year-old Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the leader of the jihadist Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and a “specially designated global terrorist” with a $10 million bounty ...

Al-Baghdadi can keep touting himself as the new caliph, but most Muslims know enough history to recognize him for what he is - a murderous tyrant using religion as to acquire rank political power. So ...

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At the age when most kids were thinking about going to college, Caliph was contemplating how to get citizenship in the States. Born in Dakar, Senegal before immigrating to New Bedford, Mass., the ...

ISIS confirmed the death of its leader and announced a replacement, apparently corroborating U.S. claims that Abu Ibrahim al Hashemi al Quraishi was killed in Syria last month. The terrorist group ...

A Caliph will one day rule in Rome, according to renowned Bulgarian mystic Baba Vanga. Often called the "Nostradamus of the Balkans", Vanga, who passed away in 1996, has made a series of predictions ...

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Reporting from San Diego — Just before midnight on New Year’s Eve, as the clock’s about to strike 12, Sherman Mendoza will steel himself to do something one last time: toast the new year with friends ...