Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. (Source: Reuters) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. (Source: Reuters)Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed, Reuters quoted the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying. Who was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ? Born as Ibrahim Awad al-Samarrai in 1971 in Tobchi (Iraq), Baghdadi joined the Salafi jihadist insurgency in 2003.

Source: Indian Express July 11, 2017 13:17 UTC