Posted in Web Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi | Counter Extremism Project October 27, 2019 Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—born “Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri” in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq—has served as ISIS ‘s caliph, Arabic for “successor,” since June 2014. https://www.counterextremism.com/extremists/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi