THE WEEK5y
The consequences of killing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
US military intelligence officials are sifting through documents discovered at the compound of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed following a US raid in north west Syria on ...
Time9y
Person of the Year
He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of death who leads ISIS. In 2015, al-Baghdadi, 44, transformed the breakaway al-Qaeda group from a battlefield force operating in the chaos of ...
Business Insider India5y
How Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose from a radical religious scholar to the brutal leader of the most powerful terrorist group in the world
President Donald Trump announced on Sunday that US Special Forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder and leader of the Islamic State, during a raid in the Idlib province of Syria on Saturday.