BREAKING—- KUWAITI ANNAHAR NEWS: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi IS DEAD! — KILLED IN US RAID

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BREAKING—- KUWAITI ANNAHAR NEWS: ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi IS DEAD! — KILLED IN US RAID

 by Jim Hoft October 26, 2019

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/10/syrian-annahar-news-us-raid-isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-is-dead/

Via Kuwaiti Annahar News —
Translated from Arabic by Microsoft —
“United States: A raid targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and killing him”

 

#عاجل– الولايات المتحدة : غارة استهدفت زعيم داعش ابو بكر البغدادي و ادت الى مقتله pic.twitter.com/xpCxOQuPsD

— جريدة النهارالكويتية (@naharkw) October 27, 2019

 

According to Newsweek the United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned.

Syrian journalist Mohamad Rasheed posted several videos tonight of air raids in northern Syria.

 

 

 

This explains President Trump’s tweet an hour ago.

Something very big has just happened!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019

 

Josh Rogin reported this an hour ago…

This seems to relate to the raid in northern Idlib, Syria where U.S. led coalition forces were pursuing a high value terrorist target. No confirmation yet, some chatter it could be Baghdadi. https://t.co/I8aCl3oG5W

— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) October 27, 2019

 

UPDATE— FOX News just broke this news. (23:30 PM)

 

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ISIS target believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed in Syria: sources

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News

 

 

A "high value ISIS target" believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by U.S.-led forces in Idlib, Syria, a well-placed military source told Fox News on Saturday night.

The U.S. military cannot yet confirm the identity of the deceased target. 

But at 9:23 p.m. Saturday, President Trump posted a Twitter message hinting at "very big" news.

 

Soon after, the White House issued a statement that major news would be announced from the White House at 9 a.m. Sunday.

 

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Newsweek reported late Saturday that Baghdadi was killed during a special operations mission that President Trump approved about a week ago.

This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this story.

 

ISIS target believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is killed in Syria: sources

By Dom Calicchio | Fox News

  

  

A "high value ISIS target" believed to be Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by U.S.-led forces in Idlib, Syria, a well-placed military source told Fox News on Saturday night. 

The U.S. military cannot yet confirm the identity of the deceased target. 

But at 9:23 p.m. Saturday, President Trump posted a Twitter message hinting at "very big" news. 

  

Soon after, the White House issued a statement that major news would be announced from the White House at 9 a.m. Sunday. 

  

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. 

Newsweek reported late Saturday that Baghdadi was killed during a special operations mission that President Trump approved about a week ago. 

This is a developing story. Check back for updates. Fox News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this story.

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TRUMP APPROVES SPECIAL OPS RAID TARGETING ISIS LEADER BAGHDADI, MILITARY SAYS HE'S DEAD

 

 

10/26/19 AT 10:45 PM EDT

 

The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.

Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country's Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army official briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid. And the Defense Department told the White House they have "high confidence" that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi, but further verification is pending.

Members of a team from the Joint Special Operations Command carried out Saturday's high-level operation after receiving actionable intelligence, according to sources familiar with the operation. The location raided by special operations troops had been under surveillance for some time.

On Saturday night, after the operation had concluded, President Trump tweeted: "Something very big has just happened!" The White House announced later that the president will make a "major statement" Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

Baghdadi, an Iraqi national, is an ultraconservative cleric who became active in the Islamist insurgency against U.S. forces following the 2003 invasion that toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was held by U.S. forces in the detention centers of Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca, where a number of future jihadi leaders rubbed shoulders while in military custody.

He went on to join Al-Qaeda in Iraq, rising up the ranks of the violent group as it merged with others to form the Islamic State of Iraq and eventually inherited its leadership in 2010, when his predecessor was killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation. As the group took advantage of a U.S. military exit to further expand, he renamed the group to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham—or the Levant—better known as ISIS, in 2013, seeking to expand to neighboring Syria, where a civil war was raging.

Baghdadi's forces made lightning gains across both Iraq and Syria, and in 2014 he declared his group a global caliphate from the Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq's second city of Mosul in his only known public appearance as ISIS leader. Officially known from then on simply as the Islamic State, the group began to grab world attention not only for atrocities committed across the region, but in high-profile strikes on civilians in the West as well.

The United States involved itself in Syria by backing groups trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in an uprising also supported by Turkey and other regional powers. The Pentagon began to realign itself by partnering with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as ISIS grew increasingly powerful, Islamists overtook the opposition and Russia joined Iran in backing Assad against these factions.

Rival campaigns led by the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Force were launched to defeat ISIS, which began to lash out abroad with bloody attacks in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and beyond. The perpetrators of at least three mass killings in the U.S. professed their allegiance to ISIS.

Something very big has just happened!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019

The group began to lose ground in both Iraq and Syria in recent years, however, with a U.S.-led coalition, Iran and Russia among the international powers hunting for Baghdadi. Though various, conflicting reports have been offered as to his fate and whereabouts, no single government has acknowledged any knowledge.

The most persistent of these reports involved him being in the so-called Jazeera region. Once a hotbed for ISIS activities, the area was often described as being in poor health condition. The region was seized by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces—yet Baghdadi was nowhere to be seen.

"Baghdadi being in Syria follows his presumed pattern of life operating between Iraq and Syria," a former senior counterterrorism official, who has tracked and supported the capture of operatives traveling from Pakistan to Iraq and Turkey, told Newsweek. "If he is dead, that would be a tremendous blow to ISIS, especially if other seniors leaders were killed during this operation."

As recent as February, Vice-Admiral Igor Kostyukov, head of the Russian general staff's Main Intelligence Department, told the state-run Tass news agency that Baghdadi's "whereabouts are unknown," but "he is definitely not in Idlib." The site is the base of operations for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a rival jihadi group with ties to Al-Qaeda's former Nusra Front, headed by Baghdadi's former associate, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who refused to join ISIS in a move that created a major rift among the militant groups.

Assad himself was seen on a rare visit to the frontlines of Idlib province in footage released Monday. The Syrian leader told his troops "that the Idlib battle is the core to decisively end chaos and terrorism in all of Syria" and vowed to defeat the array of rebel groups there while also teaming up with Kurdish-led forces against any Turkish-led attempts to push further into northern Syria.

Facing nationwide defeats at the hands of the government and its allies, a number of Syrian rebel groups have opted to reorganize themselves with the support system">support of Turkey. Ankara has mobilized these fighters to battle the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey due to alleged links to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Though Trump has withdrawn U.S. Special Forces from northern Syria, he has called for some troops to remain elsewhere in eastern Syria, where much of the country's oil reserves remain under Kurdish-led control. A convoy of U.S. military vehicles was seen rolling through the city of Qamishli on its way to eastern Deir Ezzor province.

Turkey has since halted its incursion following back-to-back deals with the U.S. and Russia, which has sought to restore Assad's authority at the country's northern border and facilitate a YPG withdrawal. This process remains ongoing, though reports remain of sporadic violence between the two factions, something that some critics of the U.S. exit worried may give ISIS a chance to resurge.

Asked how Baghdadi's death may affect the U.S. withdrawal, the former senior counterterrorism official told Newsweek, "If you are leaving you want to try to find your targets before you leave."

The Joint Special Operations Command, out of U.S. Army base Fort Bragg in North Carolina, is a sub-unified command of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Led by U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Scott A. Howell, the command oversees special mission units such as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, known to the public as SEAL Team Six and Delta Force, respectively.

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TRUMP APPROVES SPECIAL OPS RAID TARGETING ISIS LEADER BAGHDADI, MILITARY SAYS HE'S DEAD

 

 

10/26/19 AT 10:45 PM EDT

 

The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.

Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country's Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army official briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid. And the Defense Department told the White House they have "high confidence" that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi, but further verification is pending.

Members of a team from the Joint Special Operations Command carried out Saturday's high-level operation after receiving actionable intelligence, according to sources familiar with the operation. The location raided by special operations troops had been under surveillance for some time.

On Saturday night, after the operation had concluded, President Trump tweeted: "Something very big has just happened!" The White House announced later that the president will make a "major statement" Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

Baghdadi, an Iraqi national, is an ultraconservative cleric who became active in the Islamist insurgency against U.S. forces following the 2003 invasion that toppled Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. He was held by U.S. forces in the detention centers of Abu Ghraib and Camp Bucca, where a number of future jihadi leaders rubbed shoulders while in military custody.

He went on to join Al-Qaeda in Iraq, rising up the ranks of the violent group as it merged with others to form the Islamic State of Iraq and eventually inherited its leadership in 2010, when his predecessor was killed in a joint U.S.-Iraqi operation. As the group took advantage of a U.S. military exit to further expand, he renamed the group to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham—or the Levant—better known as ISIS, in 2013, seeking to expand to neighboring Syria, where a civil war was raging.

Baghdadi's forces made lightning gains across both Iraq and Syria, and in 2014 he declared his group a global caliphate from the Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Iraq's second city of Mosul in his only known public appearance as ISIS leader. Officially known from then on simply as the Islamic State, the group began to grab world attention not only for atrocities committed across the region, but in high-profile strikes on civilians in the West as well.

The United States involved itself in Syria by backing groups trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in an uprising also supported by Turkey and other regional powers. The Pentagon began to realign itself by partnering with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as ISIS grew increasingly powerful, Islamists overtook the opposition and Russia joined Iran in backing Assad against these factions.

Rival campaigns led by the Syrian government and the Syrian Democratic Force were launched to defeat ISIS, which began to lash out abroad with bloody attacks in France, Germany, the United Kingdom and beyond. The perpetrators of at least three mass killings in the U.S. professed their allegiance to ISIS.

Something very big has just happened!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019

The group began to lose ground in both Iraq and Syria in recent years, however, with a U.S.-led coalition, Iran and Russia among the international powers hunting for Baghdadi. Though various, conflicting reports have been offered as to his fate and whereabouts, no single government has acknowledged any knowledge.

The most persistent of these reports involved him being in the so-called Jazeera region. Once a hotbed for ISIS activities, the area was often described as being in poor health condition. The region was seized by the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces—yet Baghdadi was nowhere to be seen.

"Baghdadi being in Syria follows his presumed pattern of life operating between Iraq and Syria," a former senior counterterrorism official, who has tracked and supported the capture of operatives traveling from Pakistan to Iraq and Turkey, told Newsweek. "If he is dead, that would be a tremendous blow to ISIS, especially if other seniors leaders were killed during this operation."

As recent as February, Vice-Admiral Igor Kostyukov, head of the Russian general staff's Main Intelligence Department, told the state-run Tass news agency that Baghdadi's "whereabouts are unknown," but "he is definitely not in Idlib." The site is the base of operations for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a rival jihadi group with ties to Al-Qaeda's former Nusra Front, headed by Baghdadi's former associate, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, who refused to join ISIS in a move that created a major rift among the militant groups.

Assad himself was seen on a rare visit to the frontlines of Idlib province in footage released Monday. The Syrian leader told his troops "that the Idlib battle is the core to decisively end chaos and terrorism in all of Syria" and vowed to defeat the array of rebel groups there while also teaming up with Kurdish-led forces against any Turkish-led attempts to push further into northern Syria.

Facing nationwide defeats at the hands of the government and its allies, a number of Syrian rebel groups have opted to reorganize themselves with the support system">support of Turkey. Ankara has mobilized these fighters to battle the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the main component of the Syrian Democratic Forces, considered a terrorist organization by Turkey due to alleged links to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

Though Trump has withdrawn U.S. Special Forces from northern Syria, he has called for some troops to remain elsewhere in eastern Syria, where much of the country's oil reserves remain under Kurdish-led control. A convoy of U.S. military vehicles was seen rolling through the city of Qamishli on its way to eastern Deir Ezzor province.

Turkey has since halted its incursion following back-to-back deals with the U.S. and Russia, which has sought to restore Assad's authority at the country's northern border and facilitate a YPG withdrawal. This process remains ongoing, though reports remain of sporadic violence between the two factions, something that some critics of the U.S. exit worried may give ISIS a chance to resurge.

Asked how Baghdadi's death may affect the U.S. withdrawal, the former senior counterterrorism official told Newsweek, "If you are leaving you want to try to find your targets before you leave."

The Joint Special Operations Command, out of U.S. Army base Fort Bragg in North Carolina, is a sub-unified command of the U.S. Special Operations Command. Led by U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Scott A. Howell, the command oversees special mission units such as the Naval Special Warfare Development Group and 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, known to the public as SEAL Team Six and Delta Force, respectively.

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Is this the big news Trump is talking about in his latest tweet. I also read it might be him announcing charges against Obama- from some Qanon post

 

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Is this the big news Trump is talking about in his latest tweet. I also read it might be him announcing charges against Obama- from some Qanon post

 

Let’s hope so...

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BAGHDAD - Iraqi intelligence provided information to the coalition that contributed to Baghdadi's death

Members of the so-called "Islamic State" - archive

 27 October 2019 02:05 PM

Iraqi intelligence said it provided accurate and important information to Coalition Forces that contributed significantly to reaching and killing al-Baghdadi terrorist, according to the Iraqi News Agency.

A senior intelligence source told ISNA today that ISIS terrorist leaders, their aides and members of the so-called Shura Council of the criminal organization are in shock and exchange of accusations and division after the killing of their terrorist leader, known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and leaders with him in Idlib, Syria.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a military operation by US forces, US media reported on Sunday .

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a US military operation in Idlib, Syria, as US President Donald Trump prepared to make a "significant statement" at the White House, Reuters reported, citing sources in Syria, Iraq and Iran .

"Something very important has happened, " US President Donald Trump tweeted on Twitter .

US presidential spokesman Hogan Gedli said in a statement that the US president will make a very important announcement Sunday morning from the White House.  

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URGENT New and important information about the killing of Baghdadi

Release date:: 2019/10/27 14:41 • 237 times read

BAGHDAD: The Iraqi Intelligence Service (ISI) disclosed that it had presented the exact coordinates of the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's location to the Washington-led international coalition in his operation in the northwestern city of Idlib.

"We learned of the site after the arrest of an Iraqi and an Iraqi from Baghdadi's inner circle," an intelligence official told Reuters.
He pointed out that "confessions led to a site in the desert included documents on the site of Baghdadi and its movements."
The security sources reported that a detainee in Iraq called {Mohammad Ali Sagt} indicated sterile al - Baghdadi in Idlib , Syria. "
A leading militant group in the province of Idlib in northwest Syria , Reuters said that the bodies of three men and three women found in the same location with the body of a supposedly Baghdadi.
According to a source at the Pentagon that " the force that targeted al - Baghdadi , clashed with armed elements in the complex north of Syria" .anthy

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IS head Baghdadi believed dead after US strike in Syria: reports

Omar Haj Kadour with Paul Handley in Washington

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AFP•October 27, 2019

 

 

Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released by the group in April 2019

Islamic State group chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appears for the first time in five years in a propaganda video released by the group in April 2019 (AFP Photo/-)

Near Barisha (Syria) (AFP) - Jihadist supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted man, was believed Sunday to have been killed in a US special operation in northwest Syria.

The elusive chief of the Islamic State group was thought to be dead after a US military raid in the Idlib region, US media reported early Sunday.

The White House announced President Donald Trump would make a "major statement" Sunday at 9:00 am (1300 GMT), without providing details.

Turkey said it had coordinated with the United States before the operation.

A war monitor said US helicopters dropped forces in an area of Idlib province where "groups linked to the Islamic State group" were present.

The helicopters targeted a home and a car outside the village of Barisha in Idlib province, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a vast network of sources inside Syria for its information.

The operation killed nine people including an IS senior leader called Abu Yamaan as well as a child and two women, it said.

The war monitor could not confirm Baghdadi's death however and the jihadist organisation, which lost the last scrap of its once-sprawling "caliphate" earlier this year, did not immediately react on its usual social media channels.

An AFP correspondent outside Barisha saw a minibus scorched to cinders by the side of the road, and windows shattered in a neighbour's house surrounded by red agricultural land dotted with olive trees.

A resident in the area who gave his name as Abdel Hameed said he rushed to the place of the attack after he heard helicopters, gunfire and strikes in the night.

"The home had collapsed and next to it there was a destroyed tent and vehicle. There were two people killed inside" the car, he said.

- 'Joint intelligence'-

US media cited multiple government sources as saying Baghdadi may have killed himself with a suicide vest as US special operations forces descended.

He was the target of the secretly planned operation that was approved by Trump, officials said.

Turkey, which has been waging an offensive against the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeast Syria in recent weeks, had "advance knowledge" about the raid, a senior Turkish official said.

"To the best of my knowledge, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi arrived at this location 48 hours prior to the raid," the official told AFP.

The commander-in-chief of the SDF, who have been fighting IS in Syria, said the operation came after "joint intelligence work" with American forces.

From the outskirts of Barisha, an inhabitant of a camp for the displaced also heard helicopters followed by what he described as US-led coalition air strikes.

They "were flying very low, causing great panic among the people," Ahmed Hassawi told AFP by phone.

Another resident, who gave his name as Abu Ahmad and lives less than 100 metres away from the site of the destroyed house, said he heard voices "speaking a foreign language" during the raid.

The AFP correspondent said the area of the night-time operation had been cordoned off by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a group dominated by members of Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate controlling Idlib.

Between the trees, he glimpsed bulldozers at the site of the reported raid clearing out the rubble.

Long pursued by the US-led coalition against IS, Baghdadi has been erroneously reported dead several times in recent years.

Officials told ABC News that biometric work was under way to firm up the identification of those killed in the raid.

Trump earlier tweeted, without explaining, "Something very big has just happened!"

In 2014, IS overran large swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq and Baghdadi appeared in a video that summer announcing a "caliphate" in regions they controlled.

- $25 million reward -

At the height of IS rule, Baghdadi's group implemented its brutal version of Islamic law on millions. The group has been blamed for mass executions, and accused of carrying out war crimes.

But several offensives in both countries whittled down that land, backed by the air power of the US-led coalition.

In March, the SDF ousted the extremist group from its last patch of territory in eastern Syria, forcing IS to revert to an underground guerrilla modus operandi.

Baghdadi -- an Iraqi native believed to be around 48 years old -- was rarely seen.

After 2014 he disappeared from sight, only surfacing in a video in April with a wiry grey and red beard and an assault rifle at his side, as he encouraged followers to "take revenge" after the group's territorial defeat.

His reappearance was seen as a reassertion of his leadership of a group that -- despite its March defeat -- has spread from the Middle East to Asia and Africa and claimed several deadly attacks in Europe.

The US State Department had posted a $25 million reward for information on his whereabouts.

In September, the group released an audio message said to be from Baghdadi praising the operations of IS affiliates in other regions.

It also called on scattered IS fighters to regroup and try to free thousands of their comrades held in jails and camps by the SDF in northeastern Syria.

https://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-head-baghdadi-believed-dead-us-strike-064227650.html

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Great new to wake up too.

 

Thanks Yota  

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This'll piss Iran off, maybe?

 

Good news.

 

Iraq working WITH the US in fighting terror. 

 

 

 

 

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi targeted, believed dead in US raid in Syria: Sources

• By
• MARTHA RADDATZ
• , LUIS MARTINEZ
• , JOHN SANTUCCI
• , JAMES GORDON MEEK
• andJUSTIN DOOM

Oct 27, 2019, 12:38 AM ET

• Al-Furqan media via AP

 

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State last seen alive in a video in April, was targeted in a strike by U.S. Special Operations Forces in Syria on Saturday, according to three U.S. officials.

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The ISIS leader is believed to be dead, those officials told ABC News.

One official told ABC News al-Baghdadi is believed to have detonated a suicide vest he was wearing as a U.S. special mission unit carried out a ground raid in Idlib. The building containing al-Baghdadi was leveled by U.S. operators, the official said.

U.S. officials said they're awaiting final confirmation of his death through fingerprinting or other biometric methods.

 

The White House declined to comment, saying the president was planning to deliver remarks at 9 a.m. EDT Sunday. No details were provided on what would be included in President Donald Trump's remarks.

The Pentagon didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

Al-Furqan media via AP

This image made from video posted on a militant website , April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet.more +

(MORE: Trump May Have Early Chance to Target ISIS Leader)

The video in which al-Baghdadi appeared earlier this year, only his second, showed him discussing losing the group's Baghouz stronghold as well as praising deadly attacks in Sri Lanka.

More than 250 people died because of those eight coordinated attacks, which al-Baghdadi claimed were retribution for ISIS being forced from Baghouz. It was the terror group's deadliest mission.

(MORE: Officials doubt claim ISIS leader al-Baghdadi wounded in strike but say hunt continues)

There had been a $25 million U.S. bounty on the head of al-Baghdadi, who, in his only previous video, recorded in a Mosul mosque in 2014, called himself "Caliph," or leader of all Muslims.

Rumors had swirled since at least 2014 that al-Baghdadi had been wounded, or possibly even killed, but he'd often quash those himself by releasing audio recordings.

U.S. special forces nearly killed him in August 2017, destroying a compound south of Ragga in which he was believed to have been during a massive bombardment. The following month, he released an audio recording to prove he'd survived.

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Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi detonated suicide vest during US raid in Syria – reports

27 Oct, 2019 07:32 / Updated 3 hours ago

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FILE PHOTO: A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi © REUTERS

 

Notorious Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a US military operation in northwest Syria, according to reports. He supposedly detonated a suicide vest during the raid.

It is said that during the US mission – involving choppers, warplanes and drones – American troops engaged in a firefight with the terrorist. At a certain point, al-Baghdadi detonated the vest, multiple outlets, including ABC and Defense One, said citing sources. Later on Saturday, Iraqi state TV announced it will air the footage of the reported raid.

Meanwhile, in an apparent reference to the news, a commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, tweeted about the “successful, historic operation as a result of joint intelligence work with the US.” 

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Successful& historical operation due to a joint intelligence work with the United States of America.

 

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The Pentagon has yet to confirm the rumors, but US President Donald Trump is expected to make a major announcement on Sunday morning. On Saturday night, Trump tweeted that “something very big has just happened!” – fueling speculation that al-Baghdadi had in fact been killed.

ALSO ON RT.COM‘Something very big has just happened!’ Trump posts cryptic tweet amid reports ISIS leader al-Baghdadi is killed in US raid

Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) leader has been in hiding for several years. Footage distributed by the terrorist group in April of 2019 purported to show him sitting on the ground with a Kalashnikov assault rifle next to him. Before that, al-Baghdadi was last seen in a video from July 2014, when he spoke at the Great Mosque in Mosul.

https://www.rt.com/news/471954-baghdadi-killed-suicide-vest-reports/

 

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4 hours ago, Gunnytex said:

Whoah Baghdadi Baam ba Laam.

 

GOOD TUNE!!!

[Moxie64]

 

TRUMP APPROVES SPECIAL OPS RAID TARGETING ISIS LEADER BAGHDADI, MILITARY SAYS HE'S DEAD

 

 

10/26/19 AT 10:45 PM EDT

 

The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.

Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country's Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army official briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid. And the Defense Department told the White House they have "high confidence" that the high-value target killed was Baghdadi, but further verification is pending.

Members of a team from the Joint Special Operations Command carried out Saturday's high-level operation after receiving actionable intelligence, according to sources familiar with the operation. The location raided by special operations troops had been under surveillance for some time.

On Saturday night, after the operation had concluded, President Trump tweeted: "Something very big has just happened!" The White House announced later that the president will make a "major statement" Sunday at 9:00 a.m.

 

The United States involved itself in Syria by backing groups trying to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad in an uprising also supported by Turkey and other regional powers. The Pentagon began to realign itself by partnering with the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces as ISIS grew increasingly powerful, Islamists overtook the opposition and Russia joined Iran in backing Assad against these factions.

 

I PRAY & HOPE this time he is DEAD once and for all. Wow just think NO LEAKS??? Wonder how many ARE ???? pissed off they weren't informed of what was going to happen. My heart just breaks for you,lol. Seems Trump just said his best 2 words so far    "check-mate" to them all. Next big question will they releases the rv now, sure pray to God for the people need it to rebuild their lives.

  for now

Moxie64

[Butifldrm]

 

2019/10/27 13:08

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News of al-Rawi's death during the US operation against Baghdadi

BAGHDAD / Obelisk: An intelligence source revealed on Sunday, the killing of a special security aide to the leader of the "Daesh" Ghazwan al-Rawi during the US operation against Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

The official news agency quoted the source as saying that "the terrorist named Ghazwan al-Rawi, the security official of the leader of the terrorist organization Daesh, was killed in the American operation that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi."
 
"The intelligence provided accurate and important information to the coalition forces that contributed significantly to reaching and killing the terrorist Baghdadi," he said.

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/181082/انباء-عن-مقتل-الراوي-خلال-العملية-الاميركية-ضد-البغدادي

 

 

[Butifldrm]

 

2019/10/27 13:01

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Military Intelligence: Iraq played a major role in the killing of al-Baghdadi

BAGHDAD / Obelisk: The Iraqi Military Intelligence Directorate announced on Sunday, October 27, 2019, to provide information to the US-led international coalition, which contributed to the arrival and killing of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.

In a statement to the obelisk, the directorate said it had "provided accurate information to coalition forces that contributed significantly to reaching and killing al-Baghdadi terrorist."

Reuters reported on Sunday morning, October 27, 2019, the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

It quoted two Iranian officials as saying, "Syrian sources informed Tehran of the killing of ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria."

"Iran has been informed of Baghdadi's death by Syrian officials who have seen the field information," an Iranian official was quoted as saying.

The second official confirmed this information.

This, according to US media reports, killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a special operation carried out by US forces in the Syrian province of Idlib.

While the information has not been officially confirmed, the White House announced that US President Donald Trump will make a "significant statement" on foreign policy, on Sunday. For his part, Trump said in a tweet on his "Twitter" that "something big just happened" without revealing any details.

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http://almasalah.com/ar/news/181081/الاستخبارات-العسكرية--العراق-كان-له-دور-كبير-في-عملية-قتل-البغدادي

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