• ISIS confirms the death of Al Baghdadi and his spokesman
  • The Pentagon broadcasts the first videos of the raid that led to the death of Al Baghdadi
  • At the Baghdadi, Trump's announcement: "Killed by US troops also with his right arm"

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03 December 2019

Iraqi security forces captured Hamed Shaker Saba 'Al-Badri aka Abu Khaldoun, considered the number two of the head of Isis Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in the Kirkuk area. SkyNewsArab reported. The man was the cousin of the late self-proclaimed 'Black Caliph', who blew himself up along with his three children just over a month ago during a US raid in Syria.

The Iraqi 'security media cell' issued a statement and a photo of the arrested, published by Al-Arabiya. "He had a fake document with the name Shalaan Obeid. The criminal worked as a deputy in al-Baghdadi and was the 'prince' of the province of Salah al-Din," the note states.

# العراق .. الشرطة تلقي القبض على نائب # البغدادي في # كركوك https://t.co/zZmTyfJ5uY # العربية

- العربية (@AlArabiya) December 3, 2019

The death of the Caliph heir follows that of Baghdadi's right arm, killed a few days later in circumstances never clarified by President Donald Trump, who announced it.

The burial of the Caliph, whose body was identified by a portable DNA reader, by technicians who accompanied the US special forces and who compared some samples of the DNA of Baghdadi in their possession with some fragments taken from the laundry also remains in mystery. intimate of the Caliph. His remains would have been scattered at sea after an Islamic ritual.