Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom Al Jazeera refers to as the
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whom Al Jazeera refers to as the «elusive chief» of ISIS and the AP calls «shadowy,» has appeared in a propaganda video for the first time since 2014. The extremist group’s Al Furqan media network published the video message Monday, though it’s not clear when it was filmed; in it, al-Baghdadi refers to the fight for Baghouz in eastern Syria, which ended last month; Benjamin Netanyahu’s re-election in Israel; the fall of dictators in Algeria and Sudan; and Easter Sunday’s bombings in Sri Lanka. «There will be more to come after this battle,» al-Baghdadi says in the video, apparently in reference to Baghouz, which had been the group’s last stronghold.
