This week, on 27th October, the 'caliph' of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Abū Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed himself by detonating a suicide vest during a special U.S. military operation in the Syrian town of Idlib on the border with Turkey. Considered a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the United States, the death of Abū Bakr made headlines around the Middle East and the world. DC Insider ...