IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Who was the man who called himself the ‘caliph’ of all Muslims?

The brutal ‘reign’ of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of IS, self-proclaimed caliph, and the world’s most wanted man, has ended, write Ahmed Rasheed and Ahmed Aboulenein.

ABU Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Iraqi jihadist who rose from obscurity to declare himself ‘caliph’ of all Muslims, as the leader of Islamic State, had been the world’s most wanted man.