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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is gone, but the terrorist group isn’t dead yet
ISIS established a horrifying standard of brutality, re-establishing slavery, practicing what amounted to genocide against the Yazidis, carrying out mass executions and beheadings — all caught on camera — and demolishing religious sites and antiquities. The United States, with the help of its coalition allies, Iraq and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), destroyed the Islamic …
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in US raid, Trump confirms | World news
The Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been killed in a raid by US special forces on his Syrian safe house, Donald Trump has announced, ending a years-long hunt for one of the world’s most-wanted terrorists. Trump said the “impeccable” two-hour operation was conducted on Saturday night in the province of Idlib, one of …
Trump says al-Baghdadi death ‘brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader to justice’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man, was killed in a U.S. military raid in Syria, President Donald Trump said Sunday. “Last night, the United States brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader to …
Trump: al-Baghdadi is dead – CNNPolitics
“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead,” Trump said at the White House, calling the ISIS leader’s removal “the top national security priority of my administration.” The President said a US special operations forces mission went after the ISIS leader and there were no US deaths during the mission. Several ISIS fighters and companions with al-Baghdadi during …
Trump says Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up as U.S. troops closed in
The president described what he called a “dangerous and daring” nighttime operation by U.S. Special Operations forces in northwest Syria, involving a series of firefights and culminating in what he said was a retreat by Baghdadi into a tunnel. There Baghdadi, who Trump said was “whimpering and crying and screaming,” detonated an explosive vest, killing himself …
Live updates: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi believed killed, sources say
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi once reigned over a realm the size of Britain. Now, five years after he announced the caliphate’s creation from the pulpit of the al-Nuri mosque in the Iraqi city of Mosul, that realm has all but disappeared. In March, Kurdish forces captured the group’s last pocked of control in eastern …
How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi became a feared preacher of hate
In its geographical scope, ISIS was the candle that burned twice as bright and burned half as long. It was in late 2013 that Baghdadi’s followers first swept into Raqqa. That began their ambitions in Syria, and led in June 2014 to the establishing of what they called an Islamic “caliphate,” never short of ambition, …
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi believed to have been killed in US military raid, sources say
The defense official said it appears that Baghdadi detonated a suicide vest during the raid. The CIA assisted in locating the ISIS leader, the defense official said. Newsweek first reported that Baghdadi was believed to have been killed. President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a major announcement Sunday at 9 a.m., White House deputy …
