Armed groups. It was july 2014 when the world got a glimpse of the man best known as abu bakar a bucket that he and iraqi whose real name is abraham a wide ibrahim. He walked out of the shadows to declare in islam it stayed in iraq and the levant from the great mosque in the iraqi city of mosul he led friday prayers after naming himself caliph or religious leader it was a show of power by an armed group which took over much of iraqs sunni heartland after the iraqi army all but collapsed 5 years later it was back daddys state that collapsed eisel once controlled 88000. 00 square kilometers of territory stretching from western syria to eastern iraq it lost its last stronghold in syria in march this year weeks after back that he made his 1st appearance in 5 years putting to rest many unconfirmed reports of his death in a video the ice a leader wanted to show he was still in charge and along with his group survived the territorial defeat back that he was behind the groups creation and expa
Syria strategy despite the fact that it didnt turn out exactly like i said it would its not a withdrawal its a repositioning of troops hes saying that this is working that he acknowledged the help of the kurdish fighters in this case the kurdish intelligence albeit he put that very low in the sort of thanking category preferring to instead thank nations like russia that we know interfered in the 2016 u. S. Election as well as thanking turkey and iraq as well theres no question the president s probably going to get some criticism for the order of that. List or rather today sions the other thing that i think in all of this which was notable that domestically certainly hes going to get some criticism of is that even say just what he said it multiple times he said that he did not alert members of congress who typically often have oversight in these situations maybe not in a specific raid or operation but certainly on matters of war in syria policy he complained he continually pointed the f
The ice is the organization to the were talking about ideas and idolaters that out of still there the who the causes are still feeding into the aside the visions given that people say or analysts have been telling us in the past 3 hours now that youve got people who are still loyal to either Islamic State and or its affiliates stretching from or covering an area literally on the globe from as far afield as afghanistan to nigeria in west africa is there a sense in which i saw me yet be more dangerous than its been for a few years because some people have been saying to us will hang on the idea of creating a caliphate it in iraq was inherently flawed so its better to have an a more firsts organization spreading itself thinly around the world because with morton communications and lots of money you can still carry on with their socalled war of attrition you know sort of. And to put this into perspective lets remember how. It was a tag defeated all saw in 2011200120 extension 03 afghanista
California as wildfires burn out of control and in sports the world number one is kept on court for far longer than you might of light at the Paris Masters peter well have the details for you in sports. The pentagon has released the 1st images of the reason which it says ice a leader abu bakar a bug dandy was killed on saturday but does he blew himself up after a u. S. Commandos tracked him down at a comb through his highs ng in serious edler province helen fisher reports. These are the 1st pictures of the u. S. Operation to kill the leader of eisel the short declassified footage initially shows us troops moving towards the compound in Northern Syria where the tracked Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi those who came out of the building were checked for weapons and explosives and moved away from the immediate area u. S. Forces detained and later released the noncombatants the group was treated humanely at all times and included 11 children the Assault Force drew the attention of fighters in the are
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