After eight months of grinding urban warfare, Iraqi government troops on Thursday captured the ruined mosque in Mosul from where Islamic State proclaimed its self-styled caliphate three years ago.

Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is on the brink of losing the two main centers of his 'caliphate' but even though he is on the run, it may take years to capture or kill him, officials and experts said.

The News York Times published an article dwelling on the death of ISIS member Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, who was killed in an American drone strike in northern Syria late last month August. The newspaper mentioned that Al-Adnani’s heir might be Turki al-Binali from Bahrain.