He is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the brooding muezzin of ... or theocratic leader fit to rule an Islamic empire. While his control of captured oil fields and profits from kidnapping and smuggling ...
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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.
Abu Khadija was killed by Iraqi security forces, with the support of the US-led coalition, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani told.