Death find the end of a chapter. But no mistake, something does still continue. We dont know what it is but we know that isis was fractured as an ideology and franchise and unlikely that one mans death will end from a stretch from philippines through russia and to the streets of european capitals but an interesting set of questions that the commanderinchief will end up answering about how this raid came about. It was literally miles away from the southern turkish border, an area where many did not imagine abu bakr albaghdadi, the leader of isis, would look for shelter. This is where al qaeda have the biggest strong hold, a place where western intelligence chiefs are concerned about the next wave of jihad but who led them to that particular location. We understand from u. S. Officials turkey was told this operation was happening perhaps already underway and the question being what piece of
information brought them to that spot. The syrian kurds who have been the u. S. Main ally on the g
th that the intelligence has led him to this, the goal of his first term. nake patton walsh in iraq. jeremy diamond is live at the white house where the president is expected to speak any moment. the president has been criticized over his syria withdraw order and pentagon officials are underlining this particular mission could not have happened without u.s. troops in syria. what do you expect to hear from president trump? reporter: well, jake, you re right, after weeks of criticism in syria, this is a moment for the president to mark a significant foreign policy victory and try to define this as a legacy-defining moment. we ve seen him tout the so-called caliphate in iraq and syria and this is an opportunity for the president to tout the effective decapitation of the isis organization with the death that we re learning of abu bakr al-baghdadi. the president keyed this up last night by tweeting that something very big had just happened. and of course it is something