Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader known for his brutality, is dead at 48
Rukmini Callimachi and Falih Hassan, The New York Times
Updated as of Oct 28 05:30 PM
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the cunning and enigmatic black-clad leader of the Islamic State group, who transformed a flagging insurgency into a global terrorist network that drew tens of thousands of recruits from 100 countries, has died at 48.
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