Over the weekend, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a US raid in Syria, according to NBC News.
In the greatest counterterrorism victory of his presidency, Trump told the nation that al-Baghdadi killed himself and three of his children after US troops raided a compound in northwestern Syria on Saturday. The terrorist fled into a “dead-end” tunnel as soon as the raid began and used a suicide vest to blow up himself, the children, and the cave.
The CIA had been honing intelligence for weeks to ensure al-Baghdadi was killed and not an impersonator. Several previous attempts at his life were canceled when al-Baghdadi made changes to his plans.
How troops discovered the terrorist leader is classified, but the same Kurds Trump is accused of abandoning in Syria earlier this month apparently supplied information crucial for the raid.
The attack on the compound came from the air. After Vice President Mike Pence, national security adviser Robert O’Brien, and Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff were assembled, helicopters left the US to Syria.
The Russians and Turks were informed of the plan since the two countries controlled some of the airspace the US needed to fly through and to ensure no other hostile forces remained in the area. The eight helicopters nearing the compound received gunfire but returned it and landed near the compound.
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