Close al-Baghdadi Aide Killed in Joint Operation, Kurdish Commander Says

Close al-Baghdadi Aide Killed in Joint Operation, Kurdish Commander Says
People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of ISIS, in Idlib province, Syria, on Oct. 27, 2019. Ghaith Alsayed/AP Photo
Bowen Xiao
Bowen Xiao
Reporter
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The spokesman for the ISIS terrorist group has been killed in a joint operation between Syrian Kurdish forces and U.S. troops in northern Syria, just hours after the group’s leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed, according to a Kurdish commander.

Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, described on Oct. 28 how his group cooperated with the U.S. military to target Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. His comments follow a White House speech by President Donald Trump on Oct. 27 in which the president announced the death of Baghdadi during a raid by U.S. forces.
Bowen Xiao
Bowen Xiao
Reporter
Bowen Xiao was a New York-based reporter at The Epoch Times. He covers national security, human trafficking and U.S. politics.
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