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The most likely successor of al-Baghdadi would be al-Obaidi. Both al-Jumaili and al-Obaidi had previously served as security officers in Iraq’s Baathist army under Saddam Hussein, and al-Obaidi is known to be the de facto deputy of al-Baghdadi.

Our age needs something more than a repackaging of capitalism, socialism, and other failed ideologies of the past.

A fascinating development has been occurring in Russia of late. A spokesman for the Moscow Patriarchate estimates that the number of pilgrims that have come to venerate the relics of St.