______ was the name of the leader of terrorist organization Islamic State, who was recently killed in a US military operation ?

a) Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
b) Abdul Rehman Yasin
c) Ibrahim al-Yakub
d) Hasan-al-Din

US President Donald Trump announced in a press conference that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS), had been killed. While addressing a press conference, Trump said that trained commandos of the US military killed Baghdadi in a special operation in the remote village of Barisha in the Syrian province Idlib.