Trump Says Islamic State’s Al-Baghdadi Killed in U.S. Raid
- Special forces conduct raid in Idlib region of northern Syria
- President says taking down IS leader is bigger than bin Laden
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President Donald Trump said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a U.S. military raid in northwest Syria that left the Islamic State leader “in utter fear, in total panic and dread” in his final moments.
The president said other countries should now fight Islamic State, and that removing al-Baghdadi was bigger for the U.S. then killing Osama Bin Laden, the al Qaeda mastermind of the 9/11 attacks in 2001.