An Iraqi court has issued a death sentence against one of the wives of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against Yazidi women captured by the militant group.

The Islamic State group declared its caliphate a decade ago.

The White House Situation Room — a space of great mystique and even higher secrecy — just got a $50 million facelift.

Syrian opposition activists and state media apparently did not know that an Iraqi militant who was killed in October in southern Syria was the leader of the Islamic State group.

The spokesman for the Islamic State group says its leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in battle recently.

Former President Donald Trump has had a lifelong habit of collecting things.

A British man nicknamed one of the Beatles by his captives because of his English accent has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State.

A jury has convicted a British national for his role in an Islamic State group hostage-taking scheme that took roughly two dozen Westerners captive a decade ago.

Jurors at the terrorism trial of British national El Shafee Elsheikh are hearing emotional testimony as the trial stretches into its second week in a Virginia courtroom.

A hostage who survived more than a year as a captive of the Islamic State is testifying about the beatings and torture inflicted on him by his captors.

The leader of the Islamic State group killed in a U.S. raid overnight in northwest Syria was largely a mystery, with almost no known photos, never appearing in public or in the group’s videos.

A British national has admitted in federal court that he played a leadership role in an Islamic State scheme to torture, hold for ransom and eventually behead American hostages.

One of two British nationals charged with joining with the Islamic State group and conspiring to torture and behead American and European hostages in Syria is scheduled to plead guilty to criminal charges.

French President Emmanuel Macron is visiting Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the Islamic State group in 2017.

Following a Mass on Sunday in the Iraqi city of Irbil, Francis met with Abdullah Kurdi and spent a long time with him, the Vatican said. Through an interpreter, the pope listened to Kurdi’s story and expressed sympathy for the loss of his family. Francis issued the appeal during a joyful visit to the Christian community of Qaraqosh, on the Nineveh Plains of northern Iraq. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch, Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako said Francis’ visit to Iraq was “miraculous” and had already borne fruits. AdChristian and Muslim leaders in Mosul have welcomed Pope Francis' visit to the Iraqi city devastated by war and are calling on Christians who fled the Islamic State group's onslaught to return.

Trump and Bloomberg will broadcast dueling ads during Sunday's NFL championship game, with each campaign spending an estimated $10 million on 60 seconds of airtime. Trump's campaign will air two ads during the game, both 30 seconds long. One, released Thursday, highlights Trump's record, especially on the economy, citing continued wage growth and the record low unemployment rate. “Just as the Super Bowl crowns the greatest football team, nothing says ‘winning’ like President Donald Trump and his stellar record of accomplishment for all Americans,” Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale said in a statement. Trump’s campaign has set fundraising records, with $46 million raised in the last quarter of 2019 alone.

President Donald Trump says America has its eye on the new leader of the Islamic State following the death of the group's leader in a military raid last month. Trump didn't mention the name of the leader who replaced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. But he said in a speech Tuesday to the Economic Club of New York that the U.S. knows his location. Al-Baghdadi killed himself with a suicide vest as U.S. commandos closed in on him during a raid on a compound in northern Syria. The Islamic State named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi as its new leader.

BEIRUT Turkey captured the elder sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria on Monday, according to a senior Turkish official, who called the arrest an intelligence "gold mine." Little is known about the sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The Turkish official said the 65-year-old known as Rasmiya Awad is suspected of being affiliated with the extremist group. Many IS members have escaped through smuggling routes to northwestern Syria in the final days of battle ahead of the group's territorial defeat earlier this year, while others have melted into the desert in Syria or Iraq. Al-Baghdadi's aide, a Saudi, was killed hours after the raid, also in northwestern Syria, in a U.S. strike.

WASHINGTON, DC Donald Trump is the first president since William McKinley not to have a dog live in the White House. But he wants to meet the dog, tweeting Thursday that Conan "will be leaving the Middle East for the White House sometime next week!" The preference would be for any meeting to happen in a secure location, not at the White House, they said. Bringing the clandestine special operations forces to the White House would be a stark departure from the way similar events have been handled. The White House released few other details of the meeting, and did not mention the highly classified members of the unit by name.

Joshua Hammock via AP)WASHINGTON, DC The Latest on the United States and the Islamic State (all times local):5:10 p.m. The head of United States Central Command says Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was buried at sea after a weekend raid on his compound. McKenzie says two children were killed in the explosion set off by the Islamic State leader. __1 p.m.A U.S. counterterrorism official says he expects a new Islamic State leader to emerge after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and warns that the extremist group's planning of major attacks probably will go on as before. Travers says the killing of IS leader al-Baghdadi by U.S. forces in Syria on Saturday was a "significant" development.

The attacking American force launched from an undisclosed location inside Syria for the one-hour helicopter ride to the compound, McKenzie said. Two children died with al-Baghdadi when he detonated a bomb vest, McKenzie said, adding that this was one fewer than originally reported. The U.S. managed to collect "substantial" amounts of documentation and electronics during the raid, McKenzie said, but he would not elaborate. He said the raid was briefed to Trump on Friday, and McKenzie made the decision to go ahead on Saturday morning. Russell Travers, the acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told the same hearing that he does not believe al-Baghdadi's death will have "much impact" on the organization.

Maguire talked to The Associated Press during an interview about the 2020 presidential race runners outlook on foreign policy and national security. The 57-year old Republican who lives in Annapolis, Maryland, voted for Trump in 2016 and has no regrets. But she doesn't buy the president's argument that the al-Baghdadi mission validates his unconventional approach to foreign policy and national security. But other Republicans and Trump backers said they were also trying to make sense of the dizzying developments overseas. Jeb Bush, who challenged Trump in the 2016 GOP primary and has been critical of the president's leadership, voiced a hopeful note.

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's low-profile appearance Sunday night at Game 5 of the World Series came at a high-profile moment of his presidency. Wearing a dark suit and a tie, Trump arrived at Nationals Park just before the first pitch of the Houston Astros-Washington Nationals matchup. Trump and first lady Melania Trump entered a lower-tier box to the left of home plate as the game got underway. President Trump was booed loudly by the fans at Nats Park when he was shown on the big screen. Hopefully he cheers for the Washington Nationals, and I hope he enjoys the game."

We wanted an identical -- we took an identical route," Trump told reporters on Sunday while providing a detailed account of the secret mission. While clearing the compound, US forces killed a "large number" of ISIS fighters during a gun battle without suffering casualties, according to Trump. Mazloum Abdi, the commander in chief of the Kurdish forces in Syria, said in a tweet the intelligence operations that led to the US military raid in Syria that killed Baghdadi began five months ago. White House National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said Sunday that the US military operation was named after American Kayla Mueller who was held hostage by ISIS and killed in 2015. We really had great cooperation," the President told reporters Sunday.

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader ISIS, had been in hiding for the last five years. (CNN) - President Donald Trump declared Sunday morning that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead after a US military raid in northwest Syria over the weekend. "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead," Trump said at the White House, calling the ISIS leader's capture "the top national security priority of my administration." The President said a US special operations forces mission went after the ISIS leader and there were no US deaths during the mission. A senior administration official said earlier Sunday that Trump approved the mission aimed at targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US military raid in northwest Syria.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader ISIS, had been in hiding for the last five years. (CNN) - President Trump confirmed the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi this morning during a press conference at the White House. Abu Bakr al-baghdadi is dead," Trump said. "President Trump called the raid on ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "impeccable" during a press conference at the White House this morning while sharing details of the mission. Trump said the ISIS leader died after igniting a vest he was wearing.

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