FILE - This file 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. The IS erupted from the chaos of Syria and Iraq's conflicts and swiftly did what no Islamic militant group had done before, conquering a giant stretch of territory and declaring itself a "caliphate." U.S. officials said late Saturday, Oct.
Militants under his command were some of the first jihadis to grow up with the internet, and they deftly exploited social media to tout their military successes, document their mass slaughter, beheadings and stonings, and promote the Islamic State to a global audience.and five years after the group humiliated its armed forces and seized nearly a third of the country.
Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, the IS spokesman and one of the group’s best known commanders, was also said to have been killed in 2016 by a Russian airstrike. Al-Zarqawi was killed by U.S. forces in an airstrike north of Baghdad in 2006 and al-Baghdadi became a trusted aide of its two most senior figures, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Al-Baghdadi assumed control of the group, known at the time as the Islamic State of Iraq.
Over time, more of his fighters and possibly al-Baghdadi himself relocated to Syria, pursuing their plans to restore a medieval Islamic state, or caliphate, spanning both Iraq and greater Syria, also known as the Levant. In April 2013, al-Baghdadi announced what amounted to a hostile takeover of the Nusra Front, saying he was merging it into a new group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The move caught both the Nusra Front and al-Qaida’s central command off guard.
Then came the offensive that would draw the U.S. back into Iraq. In June 2014, al-Baghdadi’s militants and allied Sunni fighters seized Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul and other Sunni-dominated communities in the north and west of the country. Government troops in many areas put up little resistance, abandoning their posts and leaving behind valuable American-made materiel. Al-Baghdadi’s fighters posted propaganda videos of its forces gunning down captured Shiite troops en masse.
President Barack Obama launched airstrikes against IS beginning Aug. 8. He acted after thousands of Iraqi Yazidis, followers of an ancient religion with ties to Zoroastrianism, were targeted by al-Baghdadi’s fighters and in order to safeguard U.S. interests, including a consulate in the Iraqi Kurdish regional capital of Irbil.
How did he die twice? He was killed in 2015 lol
PHLNewsInsider he killed himself.
President Trump celebrated the killing of Al-Baghdadi as a huge victory but Erdogan is a bigger terrorist and he is still there in charge.
AP got it right for a change.
Rotten SOB!!
Like modern Christians?
🤣🤣🤣this is the sixth time he’s been killed....don’t believe me ....research it.
Boy you’re not taking any chances with this (completely accurate and appropriate) headline!
But WAPO said he was a charismatic misunderstood religious leader whose time and vision was to soon for most people (I paraphrased their head line) .
How many virgins?
Good riddance
This is a harsher tone than you used earlier today...so I guess your readers aren’t as “woke” as you thought they’d be?
A psychopath among psychopaths.
He was killed? Did we activate his suicide vest?
Good job AP.
A WP hero according to the now deleted headlines
But was he the current leader? Was his replacement already in place?
Yet not at all shunned by the US media. Go figure.
Remember Kayla Mueller!
It was almost missed due to trump's obedience to Russia and Turkey and his surrender and retreate. He even thanked Russia.
All those focusing on the fact that he killed himself... filling up comments and trolling all over twitter Why do you think they are doing that, exactly? Because that would make him a martyr in the eyes of Islam. These 'american democrats' you are following are ISIS trolls.
'Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was the leader of the Islamic State group who brought terror to the heart of Europe...' ...thanks to Obama
Noise! How's the impeachment goin?
Bravo Outstanding death notice
The reason AP is better than BBC, NY Times and Washington Post.
Always tweets!!
bravo US d'avoir tuer tous les cheyguivara musilemans.rt preserver tous responsables làche et sans principes
JonLemire
Thx Donald.
He committed suicide. Not sure what your definition of suicide is but it ain't this.
Nelson voice: HAW haw
Breaking ...alBaghdadi rumoured to have shat himself trying to escape on his rocket pack causing a methane explosion & his demise...ISIS
*On his way to Turkey...who just so happened to have the Kurds handed over to them when the US left Syria...nothing to see here, other than the war crimes that are happening to the Kurds in exchange for one guy...👍
How can you say in the tweet: 'He was killed Saturday by U.S. forces in Syria.' and in the article: “…when he detonated his suicide vest in a tunnel while being pursued by U.S. forces north of Idlib, Syria, killing himself and three of his children…” It’s not the same, is it?
You guys are disgusting
Apparently died like a dog. At the vet getting an injection and his favorite treat, surrounded by his best friends
Europe? His criminal rag tags murdered and raped Muslims throughout the Middle East! Who is going to remember them? Where are their Memorials? Because the victims were Muslim so you even whitewash them in headlines too!
prove it..
Didn't he actually kill himself?
What about all these other times?
Meanwhile trump.....
FACT: 6/12/16: al-Baghdadi killed in a US airstrike 5/28/17: killed in Russian air strike 6/11/17: killed in Syrian artillery strike 6/29/17: Iranian leader says he's 'definitely dead.' 7/11/17: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights confirmed his death 10/26/2019: Killed again
The United States created ISIS The United States destroys ISIS Trump and Modi have only one strategy to win the elections. Military operations and Boom The election is secured..
Get your story straight when you publish headlines. He killed himself.
Who is financing ISIS?
You made the right people crazy
We have the strongest military in the world. I'm so thankful that our President built it back up after the last guy depleted it.
That's great news 🥰
It's good he's dead. ISIS isn't dead.
Can I get the skin to make a lamp shade out of? flatulent_p
Twenty more far worse than him, ready to fill his filthy shoes. Besides, Baghdadi was DECLARED DEAD in 2017, by very credible sources.
JonLemire 48 looks 88 when you're a hate filled terrorist.
Europe Tell that to Kaylas parents.
whoopie.....
If you have to explain who he is, Trumpolini’s base is too stupid to know anyway.
Those in charge of this action need to prove that this is true. Certainly can’t believe anything that POTUS says.
Better than WaPo, that's for sure.
As the MAGA crowd showers their dear leader with praise, let’s remember there is always a tweet...
He was a good man according to the Washington Post.
i am outraged. he murdered children and killed himself at once. he obviously was too much of an idealist to come to reason
Didn’t Obama let this guy go because he was just JV?
This is the appropriate title
WAR IS NOT OVER YET WE ARE COMING TO YOUR STREETS PIGS
hiding in an Al Queda area. Maybe that’s a bad sign
Thank goodness. And, that beard is atrocious.
Thank you USSOCOM American Heroes 🇺🇸
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Never heard of him until today. He’s no Bin Laden.
AndrewCFollett this is a much better headline than Wapo's
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi transformed himself from a little-known teacher of Koranic recitation into the self-proclaimed ruler of an entity that covered swaths of Syria and Iraq
The devil just found a new friend.
He was a good man according to the washingtonpost.
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