US President Donald Trump announced yesterday the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after he escaped into a dead-end tunnel after an overnight raid by US forces in Syria, saying he was "dead dog dead" as Turkey and Iraq fought. The Kurdish forces have the most important role in the process that led to the elimination of Baghdadi, and Britain and France announced that the battle against the terrorist organization did not end with the killing of its leader.
"The serial killer who tried so much to intimidate others spent his last moments in total anxiety, fear and panic, lest US troops break him, and dogs and cowards are dead," Trump said in a White House speech.
He continued: «Baghdadi was killed after he escaped to a dead end tunnel, reached the end of the tunnel while our dogs were chasing him, blew his jacket and killed himself and his three children, explosions maimed his body, and the tunnel collapsed above it, but the results of the tests allowed to identify him in a sure and immediate and complete, it was really he ».
"Baghdadi, who sought everything he could to intimidate others, spent his last moments in utter panic," Trump said.
Trump said that a large number of ISIS operatives were killed in the American operation. "We have not lost any element in the operation, while a large number of al-Baghdadi fighters and his comrades were killed with him," he said. The killing of Baghdadi.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, US helicopters landed fighters on the ground after midnight yesterday as part of the operation targeting al-Baghdadi. ».
Turkey announced that "coordination" between Ankara and Washington prior to the process of targeting Baghdadi, said the Turkish Defense Ministry in a tweet on «Twitter»: «Prior to the US operation in the Syrian province of Idlib, there was an exchange of information and coordination between the military authorities of the two countries».
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), led by the Kurds, said they had cooperated with the United States in a successful operation against ISIS, describing the operation as "historic."
Iraqi state television aired footage of what it said was a US raid in Syria in which al-Baghdadi was killed.
Iraq announced that it had located the position of the leader of «Daesh», and informed him of the United States, which carried out the raid that ended in his death. According to accurate information, from the identification of the den where the head of ISIS is hiding, the criminal terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and with him in the Syrian province of Idlib ».
For its part, said the Russian Defense Ministry, yesterday, it does not have reliable information about the US operation, which killed Baghdadi. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed Baghdadi's death as an "important moment," but stressed that the battle against the group was "not over yet," he wrote on Twitter.
"We will work with our partners to end ISIS criminal and barbaric activities once and for all."
French Defense Minister Florence Barley congratulated the United States on the killing of al-Baghdadi, but warned that this did not mean the end of the organization. "The killing of al-Baghdadi is an early retirement of a terrorist but not of his organization. "With the new regional conditions."