ISLAMIC STATE NOV 10 2019 SPOTLIGHT SOUTH ASIA NEWS SPS PUBLICATION RESEARCH EDUCATION & CULTURE SPOTLIGHT Home Spotlight Baghdadi’s elimination does not mean the end of Islamist terrorism Baghdadi’s elimination does not mean the end of Islamist terrorism Baghdadi announced he had become "Caliph" in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraw in July 2014 and, since then, his followers recognised him as the political and religious leader of the whole Muslim world. Large numbers of terrorist outfits - including in South Asia - accepted him as their leader, writes Jai Kumar Verma for South Asia Monitor By Jai Kumar Verma NOV 2, 2019 US President Donald Trump disclosed in a televised address on October 27 that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, head of Islamic State, had been killed in a raid by special Forces in the Idlib region of n...
