A protégé of Zarqawi, the ‘caliph’ is likely alive in hard-to-reach Badia, Syria
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Geostrategy-Direct Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who declared himself “caliph” in founding Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014, is likely hiding out in Syria’s vast Badia desert, according to an Iraqi historian (more…)