Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Arabic: أبو بكر البغدادي, born Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri) (28 July 1971 – 27 October 2019) was the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as ISIS or Daesh, an Islamic extremist group in western Iraq, Libya, northeast Nigeria, and Syria. He was proclaimed by his followers to be a caliph.