Leader of ISIS terror network has a 'British wife and three children living in Slough'

A man believed to be the new leader of the ISIS terror group has a wife and three children in the UK, a report claims. Abdul Qadir Mumin was born in Somalia, moved to Sweden then settled in England where he was granted British citizenship.

ISIS's supreme commander is now reported to be in northern Somalia, but he left behind wife, British Somali Muna Abdule, a son and two daughters, according to the Daily Mail. Mrs Abdule, 43, is said to be living in a two-bedroom council flat in Slough, Berkshire, with a son aged 20 and daughters aged 18 and 17.

She told the Daily Mail life hasn't been easy since Mumin left without telling her where he was going.

The health company worker said: "He abandoned us...We have not seen or heard from him in more than 10 years. We have nothing to do with him."

While living in the UK preaching a radical form of Islam, Mumin is believed to have crossed paths with so-called Jihadi John, Mohammed Emwazi, who was one of the ISIS Beatles involved in the brutal executions of Western aid workers and journalists in Iraq and Syria. Emwazi died in a drone strike in November 2015.

Mumin also knew Michael Adebolajo, who murdered Fusilier Lee Rigby near the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich in 2013 in the first Al-Qaeda inspired attack on British soil. He was sentenced to a whole life term in February 2014.

He was the emir of an ISIS's affiliate in Somalia before being appointed the network's global leader after a US airstrike in Somalia.

Some experts, however, cast doubt on whether Mumin was appointed the terror network's spiritual and political leader as he doesn't meet the group's strict leadership requirements.

A number of analysts have suggested he may have become a ranking operational commander, according to the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.

France 24 reports that his rise to the top reflects the caliph no longer being the most important figure in ISIS and the group's strategic shift towards Africa.

ISIS had ruled over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, but the group was mostly wiped out by a US-led coalition.

It has rebuilt itself and regrouped since, with US and Syrian forces reporting in November the destruction of 15 sites holding ISIS weapons caches, according to Reuters.