In April 2015, multiple media reports emerged claiming that Baghdadi had married a German teenager on 31 March 2015. [225] On 28 February 2016, Iraqi media reported that she had left IS and had fled Iraq along with two other women. She was identified as Diane Kruger. [226] According to reports in the Iraqi media, she had married him during October 2015, somewhere within Nineveh Governorate. [227] Sujidah al-Dulaimi [ edit ] Calabresi, Massimo (2015). "Person of The Year: The Short List: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi". Time. Archived from the original on 5 May 2019 . Retrieved 30 January 2017. Seligman, Lara (October 27, 2019). "Baghdadi is Dead, But ISIS Remains Emboldened Since Trump's Drawdown". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on October 27, 2019 . Retrieved October 27, 2019. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) spent five months working with the U.S. government to gather intelligence on Baghdadi's whereabouts, according to Kurdish and U.S. officials. Gen. Mazloum Abdi, SDF commander, was the only foreigner to know about the target, he told Foreign Policy through a translator. His account was confirmed independently by the senior U.S. official.

In October 1981 extremists assassinated the Egyptian president Anwar Sadat, and when Cairo authorities could not prove Zawahiri’s direct complicity they charged him with illegal possession of arms. He was confined to a tiny cell and reportedly beaten every day, allegedly betraying associates under electric torture. Correll, Diana Stancy (November 19, 2019). "ISIS expected to revamp operations in Syria, grow the ability to target the West, says Pentagon watchdog". Military Times. Archived from the original on November 27, 2019 . Retrieved November 24, 2019. a b "Statement from the President on the Death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi". whitehouse.gov (Press release). 27 October 2019. Archived from the original on 1 March 2021 . Retrieved 1 March 2021– via National Archives. Will McCants says that he "successfully" defended his Ph.D. thesis in 2007, "despite the weight of his new responsibilities" as a militant, his work consisting in editing a medieval manuscript, Ruḥ al-murid fi sharḥ al-'iqd al-farid fi nuzum at-tajrid by Muhammad al-Samarqandi (who died in 1378 in Baghdad), an Arabic poem on the recitation of the Qur'an (or tajwid), for which he was awarded a grade of "very good". [53] Character [ edit ] An analysis by the Brookings Institution released on November 6, 2019, portrayed the raid's success as a reminder of the United States' "power and resolve" in the War on Terror, remarking on three particular aspects of the operation: intelligence collection, international cooperation, and operational capability. Brookings asserted that it was a combination of U.S. hard power and soft power that secured cooperation with Turkey, Russia, Iraq and the Kurds and noted that a synergized combination of HUMINT, SIGINT, and visual intelligence gathering was the key to translating the ISIL informant's information into actionable operational intelligence, such as how the deployment of military dogs indicated U.S. forces were expecting close-quarters obstacles thanks to intelligence reports. The analysis stated that despite Baghdadi's eight years of experience evading capture or death, the operation succeeded due to the U.S. professionally utilizing the "Find, Fix, Finish" intelligence cycle standard: narrow down Baghdadi's suspected location (the Find), verify his identity and location and translate the intelligence into a feasible action plan (the Fix), and subdue the target (the Finish). [72]On 27 October 2019, when it was said al-Baghdadi died, it was reported that two of Baghdadi's wives were also killed, wearing suicide vests that had not detonated. [221] [222] This was confirmed by United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. [223] Who was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi?". BBC. 27 October 2019. Archived from the original on 28 October 2019 . Retrieved 27 October 2019. a b c Safi, Michael; Chulov, Martin (October 27, 2019). "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in US raid, Trump confirms". The Guardian. Archived from the original on October 27, 2019 . Retrieved October 27, 2019.

After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, al-Baghdadi helped found the militant group Jamaat Jaysh Ahl al-Sunnah wa-l-Jamaah (JJASJ), in which he served as head of this group. [51] [58] US internment [ edit ] Mugshot of al-Baghdadi Bulos, Nabih (October 28, 2019). "The quiet man who harbored Islamic State leader Baghdadi". Los Angeles Timea. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019 . Retrieved November 6, 2019. The operation was named after Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker that was abducted by ISIL in Syria in August 2013. During her captivity, she was reportedly forced into marriage with al-Baghdadi, during which time she was repeatedly raped, tortured, and physically abused. She was confirmed dead in early February 2015, reportedly murdered by al-Baghdadi himself. [35] Some believe that al-Baghdadi became an Islamic revolutionary during the rule of Saddam Hussein, but other reports suggest he was radicalized by joining the Muslim Brotherhood as a youth, [55] followed by his later internment with Al Qaeda commanders at the US Camp Bucca. [56] He may have been a mosque cleric around the time of the US-led invasion in 2003. [56] During this period, he was highly influenced by the writings of the Egyptian Jihadist scholar Sayyid Qutb. [57]

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a b Williams, Katie Bo (October 30, 2019). "General: Trump Pullout Did Not Affect Baghdadi Raid Timing". Defense One. Archived from the original on November 27, 2019 . Retrieved November 27, 2019. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: US releases first images of raid on compound". BBC News. October 31, 2019. Archived from the original on October 31, 2019 . Retrieved October 31, 2019. Ibrahim Awad Ibrahim al-Badri ( Arabic: إبراهيم عواد إبراهيم البدري, romanized: ʾIbrāhīm ʿAwād ʾIbrāhīm al-Badri; 28 July 1971–27 October 2019), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ( Arabic: أبو بكر البغدادي, romanized: ʾAbū Bakr al-Baghdādī), was an Iraqi militant who was the first caliph [a] of the Islamic State (IS) from 2014 until his death. According to a reporter for The Guardian, al-Baghdadi married in Iraq around the year 2000 after finishing his doctorate. The son of this marriage was 11 years old in 2014. [35]