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Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (Arabic: إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم علي البدري, romanized: ʾIbrāhīm ʿAwād ʾIbrāhīm Alī al-Badri; 28 July 1971 – 27 October 2019), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أبو بكر البغدادي, romanized: ʾAbū Bakr al-Baghdādī), was an Iraqi ...
Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Operation Kayla Mueller) Part of the Syrian civil war, the American-led intervention in the Syrian civil war ( Operation Inherent Resolve ), the international military intervention against the Islamic State, and the Global War on Terrorism.
On 8 April 2013, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, released an audio statement in which he claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq, and Al-Nusra Front, two Al-Qaeda affiliated groups, were merging into one group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the leader of al-Nusra Front, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda, both rejected the merge. Al-Julani claimed that he and all the other al-Nusra leaders had never gave ...
Oct 28, 2019 · Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and arguably the world's most wanted man, killed himself during a raid by US commandos in north-western...
Jun 11, 2024 · Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL; also called Islamic State in Iraq and Syria [ISIS]) from 2010 to 2019. The details of Baghdadi’s life remain uncertain or unknown.
Oct 29, 2019 · Donald Trump announced Sunday that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a “very dangerous mission” by a US special forces operations mission. View live updates here.
Oct 27, 2019 · Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the cunning and enigmatic black-clad leader of the Islamic State who transformed a flagging insurgency into a global terrorist network that drew tens of thousands of...
Jun 25, 2024 · Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Weeks after the last redoubt of his caliphate fell, Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made a final ...
Oct 31, 2019 · The elusive leader of the Islamic State group (IS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed himself during a raid early on 27 October by US special forces in Syria. Here's what we know about the operation...
Oct 29, 2019 · After a five-year international manhunt, the leader of the Islamic State, who at one point controlled a caliphate the size of Britain, was killed in a raid by elite United States forces in Syria...
