This building, now a mosque called Abu Bakr Masjid, has a remarkable history that goes back 150 years to the days immediately after the Great Chicago Fire. In the years since, the building has ...

At least three Palestinians were shot and injured as Israeli occupation forces escalated their attacks in the occupied West ...

TULKARM, May 29, 2025 (WAFA) — Israeli occupation forces continued large-scale demolitions of homes in Nour Shams refugee ...

When Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took the reins of the Islamic ... liked soccer but preferred to spend his free time at the local mosque. “He always had religious or other books attached on the back ...

His black robes and turban may harken back to Arab rulers from 1,500 years ago, but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s taste in wrist-wear is decidedly more 21st century. Days after the mysterious leader of ...

Abu Bakr, never convicted of any charges, presided over a mosque and school complex in the country’s capital, and shared time among his four wives, the maximum Islam allows. David McFadden AP ...

Authorities are looking for a man who was seen on surveillance video throwing a rock through the window of the Masjid Abu Bakr mosque in Denver early Sunday morning. The Colorado Muslim Society ...

Mohamed, a native of Somalia, has led prayers as the imam of Abu-Bakr Mosque for the past five years. The mosque originally was on Rainier Avenue South but moved earlier this year to a simple ...

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the cunning and enigmatic black-clad leader of the Islamic State who transformed a flagging insurgency into a global terrorist network that drew tens of thousands of recruits ...

The Great Mosque of al-Nuri, a medieval mosque with the tall, leaning al-Hadba minaret, was the site where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made a rare public appearance and, in July 2014 ...

The mosque -- also known as Mosul's Great Mosque -- is where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a so-called Islamic caliphate in 2014 shortly after the city was overrun by the militants and ...