Search Results for “”

People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday ...

A tip, the raid, the reveal: US takedown of al-Baghdadi

By Deb Riechmann and Aamer Madhani The Associated Press

October 28, 2019 - 3:28 am

The daring raid was the culmination of years of steady intelligence-gathering work — and 48 hours of hurry-up planning once Washington got word that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would be at a compound in northwestern Syria.