The Trump model began to take shape when high-value targets Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (2019) and Quds Force chief Qasem Soleimani (2020) were taken down during the U.S. president's first term.

State Department in their Rewards for Justice website on June 18, 2014 shows Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AP Photo/U.S.

Department of Defense released a video of the raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Marine Corps Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the head of the U.S.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the largely decimated ISIS terrorist group, is reportedly still alive. Video footage shows him sitting next to a rifle.

The leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is one of the top names on Time magazine's "Person of the Year" list along with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, and others.

A report published Friday apparently contains new comments from ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but he didn't make any mention of the Paris attacks that left more than 120 people dead on Friday. ISIS militants "will never abandon fighting.

Earlier that year, Trump had also authorized the daring raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria—another high-risk operation many doubted he would greenlight.

Abu Omar al-Baghdadi took over the group until he died in 2010. Khawaja said Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi then became the leader of AQI and eventually rebranded it as ISIS.

A few days ago, another site claimed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi--the purported head of ISIS--is actually a "Mossad agent named Elliott Shimon." However, the website where it was posted didn't offer any sources--mostly speculation.

He then cited his first administration's targeted airstrike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in early 2020 and the operation that led to the death of then-ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

When asked about the “end game,” Trump pointed to the examples of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Iranian General Qasem Soleimani, who were both eliminated during Trump’s first term.

When asked about the “end game” in Iran, Trump pointed to the examples of ISIS terrorist group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who were both eliminated during Trump’s first term.

When asked about the “end game,” Trump pointed to examples from his first term, referring to the elimination of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. “We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen,” he said.

BAGHDAD—An Iraqi court issued a death sentence against one of the wives of the late brutal ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against Yazidi women captured by the terrorist group, the country's

Qasem Soleimani and ISIS terrorist group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. “We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen,” he said. “If they want to have protests, that’s one thing.

The group's first leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a 2019 U.S. operation in Idlib Province, Syria.

And then you have to juxtapose that against the deterrent policy of Donald Trump, who took out Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and it’s no better friend, no worse enemy. And maybe to restore deterrence he needs to send a lesson.

In other words, the taking out of the Wagner Group in Syria, the killing of Qassem Soleimani or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, or the bombing of the nuclear facilities. They were all finite, very short, solved the problem. Bombed ISIS into oblivion.

-led campaign that killed former ISIS head Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, who had declared himself the "caliph of all Muslims," has since targeted its surviving leaders, many of whom are thought to have planned attacks abroad.

The group's most notorious leader and its founder, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, killed himself during an October 2019 raid that was being carried out by U.S. special forces in northwestern Idlib Province, Syria.

He had taken over as head of ISIS on Oct. 31, 2019, just days after ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hunted down by U.S. soldiers during a raid.

Qassem Soleimani and ISIS terrorist grandee Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

In that year, U.S. forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northwestern Syria on the orders of then-president, now President-elect Donald Trump.

A smoke cloud rises moments after an air strike on the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in the Idlib region of Syria from video taken Oct. 26, 2019. (U.S.

He also noted the United States' eliminating ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in October 2019. Asked by Mr.

Smith, a convert to Islam, went to Syria in 2015 after terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called on Muslims to travel there and support ISIS. The former soldier was handed a 15-month sentence in July.

That operation in northwest Syria led to the death of Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who was the leader of ISIS since 2019. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was Al-Qurayshi’s predecessor, died during a U.S. raid in the same area in 2019.

'Decline in Morale' Two other ISIS leaders have been killed by the U.S. military in Syria in recent years: former head of ISIS Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who committed suicide during an October 2022 raid, and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019, who

The death of Quraishi, 45, was another crushing blow to ISIS two years after the violent Sunni Muslim group lost longtime leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a similar raid in 2019.

The Iranian proxy attack on Tower 22 was the first to bring to general public knowledge the constellation of base camps that the Biden team reopened after the Trump administration used these base camps to defeat ISIS, eliminate Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and