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ISIS leader Baghdadi killed in US special forces raid in Syria: Reports

Baghdadi, the leader of the terror group, has been in hiding for the last five years. He became the leader of Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2010.

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ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US military in northwest Syria on Saturday.

An attack targeting Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State militant group was apparently approved by Trump a week ago and executed on Sunday. President Donald Trump is scheduled to make a major announcement today at 9 AM, White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley announced.

Baghdadi, the leader of the terror group, has been in hiding for the last five years. He became the leader of Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in 2010. In 2013, ISI declared its absorption of an al Qaeda-backed militant group in Syria and Baghdadi said that his group will now be known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS).

Under his leadership, ISIS fought back government forces in Syria and Iraq, claiming huge areas of oil-rich land populated by millions of people.

Al-Baghdadi was last seen in a propaganda video in April that showed a man purporting to be Baghdadi. It was the first time Baghdadi has been seen since July 2014, when he spoke at the Great Mosque in Mosul.

In February 2018, several US officials said Baghdadi had been wounded in an airstrike in May 2017 and had to relinquish control of the terror group for up to five months because of his injuries.

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