BAGHDAD: Discreet in his youth and invisible as the world’s most wanted man, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rose through the ranks quietly and patiently to become global jihad’s undisputed supremo.
The Russian army said Friday that Baghdadi may have been killed in a May 28 air strike near the jihadists’ Syria stronghold of Raqa, although there was no immediate confirmation from his Islamic |State group or the US-led coalition battling IS in Syria and Iraq.
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