Profile: Islamic State and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – BBC News

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It looks at the rise of BBC Newsnight’s Secunder Kermani group and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s leader. The advance of militant fighters in the Islamic State of Iraq has thrown the country into chaos and led to U.S. airstrikes against their key positions. The group’s fighters, formed in April 2013 under the name Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), have made huge gains in northern Iraq in recent months, forcing dozens of people from religious minorities to flee their homes. .

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