Abu Bakr al Baghdadi
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi was an Iraqi terrorist and leader of ISIS during its period of territorial expansion in Iraq and Syria. He took over in 2010, and on June 29, 2014, he declared the establishment of the ISIS caliphate. Al Baghdadi oversaw the group's campaign of human rights abuses including torturing and murdering civilians, mass executions, the practice of sexual slavery and the genocide of ethnic and religious minorities. He was killed in a US raid in October 2019.
Other terms tagged with Islamist
Hate Group
An organization whose goals and activities are primarily or substantially based on a shared antipathy towards people of one or more other different races, religions, ethnicities/nationalities/national origins, genders, and/or sexual identities. The mere presence of bigoted members... Read more
Colleyville Synagogu…
On January 15, 2022, a gunman entered Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, during services, taking three congregants and a rabbi as hostages. The standoff ended more than ten hours later with all hostages released, unharmed, and... Read more
Aafia Siddiqui
Siddiqui is a Pakistani woman who studied neuroscience at Brandeis and MIT in the 1990s and returned to Pakistan in 2003. She allegedly worked as a courier and financier for Al Qaeda. She was taken into custody... Read more
Al Sahab Media
Al Sahab Media is the official Arabic-language media wing of Al Qaeda's central leadership. The channel mainly releases publications, sermons and lessons from Al Qaeda leadership, and sometimes includes footage from Al Qaeda operations.