In this video, the first in which he appears since 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announces that "the battle for Baghouz is now over."

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi appeared for the first time in five years in a propaganda video broadcast by the jihadist organization on Monday.

The date of the shooting unknown. The date on which this video was shot is unknown, but Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the self-proclaimed jihadi "caliphate" in 2014, declares "the battle for Baghouz is over now", in reference to the group's last ultraradical in eastern Syria, fell on March 23, 2019.