Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

ISIL extremists are mounting increasingly bold attacks in Syria and Iraq following their loss of territory in both countries and are planning for the breakout of their fighters in detention facilities, U.N. experts said in a new report.

Two detained relatives of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the killed leader of ISIL, were remanded by a court in central Turkey on Dec. 19, judicial sources said.

Ismael al-Ethawi, a close associate of ISIL leader Abu Bakr-Baghdadi who killed himself in a U.S. raid last month, was arrested by Turkish authorities and handed over to the Iraqis, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said on Nov. 18

Four close relatives of dead ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi have been arrested in the central Anatolian province of Kırşehir on Nov. 16.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Nov. 12 that the United States knows the location of the third in command to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who killed himself last month during a U.S.-led raid.

The former ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed with military and intelligence cooperation between Turkey and the U.S., the Turkish defense minister has said, noting that he did not know Baghdadi was in Syria's Idlib before the operation.

The wife of the late ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi revealed "a lot of information" about the group's "inner workings" after she was captured last year, a Turkish official told AFP.

The U.S. knows "almost nothing" about the man who has succeeded Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to lead the ISIL terrorist organization, a senior State Department official said on Nov. 6.

Turkey has captured the wife of slain ISIL ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said.

The sister of the slain Islamic State terrorist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in a Turkish migration centre. Her fate will be decided by the judiciary, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said today, TASS reported.