Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (Arabic: ابراهيم عواد ابراهيم 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 militant who was the first caliph of the Islamic State (IS) from 2014 until his death in 2019. Baghdadi was born in Samarra and obtained graduate degrees in Islamic theology in the late 1990s and 2000s. Following the American invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Baghdadi led the "Jama'at Jaysh Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama'ah" insurgent group in Iraq and was detained with al-Qaeda commanders at the American Camp Bucca in 2004. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has received more than 13,845,443 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 77 in 2019). Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the 18th most popular extremist (up from 20th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Iraq (down from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Iraqi Extremist.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS. He is a Sunni Muslim who is the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State. Baghdadi was born in Samarra, Iraq, and joined the insurgency that developed following the 2003 invasion of Iraq.