Baghdad/Washington — US President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died during an overnight raid led by US military forces in Syria.
Baghdadi killed himself and three of his children by detonating an explosives-laden vest when he fled US forces into a dead-end tunnel during the attack, which took place in the Idlib region in northwest Syria, the US president said in a televised address to the nation from the White House...
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