
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was named head of the Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of armed groups, two years ago after the killing of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in a US air strike in 2010.
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Iraqi counter-terrorism forces have arrested the top leader of the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq network in northern Baghdad and seized a list of names and locations of other operatives.