How Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose from a radical religious scholar to the brutal leader of the most powerful terrorist group in the world
Reuters
- 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.
- The self-declared caliph of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Al-Baghdadi, 48, was instrumental in building ISIS into one of the most potent terrorist groups in history.
- Al-Baghdadi joined the fight against the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and was radicalized... Читать дальше...