Most of Mansa Musa's wealth came from gold and salt. Abu Bakr, Mansa Musa’s predecessor, was desperate for the Mali Empire to expand. Known as the Voyager King, he personally led thousands of ...

A former spokesman for Nidal's Fateh Revolutionary Council, Atef Abu Bakr, told the Arabic al Hayat newspaper that Nidal had admitted the group was behind the attack on a Pan Am 747 airliner which ...

The Qatari-based Al Jazeera network published a video of a child in northern Gaza reciting by heart a speech given by former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi vowing to destroy Israel and the ...

He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of ... or theocratic leader fit to rule an Islamic empire. While his control of captured oil fields and profits from kidnapping and smuggling ...