29 Oct 2019

Trump announces ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead

From Morning Report, 7:46 am on 29 October 2019

US President Donald Trump announced over the weekend at the White House that the "world's number one terrorist leader" is dead.

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi "blew himself up" when cornered by US forces who conducted a daring, two-hour nighttime raid on his compound in northern Syria.

The United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper justified the operation to media a short time ago. RNZ's correspondent in Washington DC is Giles Gibson.