{"id":316118,"date":"2019-10-27T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-27T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=316118"},"modified":"2019-10-27T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2019-10-27T07:03:27","slug":"isis-chief-al-baghdadi-believed-to-be-dead-in-us-military-raid-in-syria-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/isis-chief-al-baghdadi-believed-to-be-dead-in-us-military-raid-in-syria-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Chief Al-Baghdadi believed to be dead in US Military raid in Syria: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316119 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/baghdadi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"528\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/baghdadi.jpg 528w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/baghdadi-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/10\/baghdadi-356x220.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 528px) 100vw, 528px\" \/>The leader of the Islamic State militant network Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US special forces operations in northwest Syria on Saturday, US media reported on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was targeted in Syria&#8217;s Idlib province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A US official said final confirmation that the IS chief was killed in an explosion is pending.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Saturday that\u00a0President Donald Trump would make a major announcement on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Trump gave an indication that something was happening earlier on Saturday night when he tweeted without elaborating,\u00a0\u2018Something very big has just happened!\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sources reported that Baghdadi was believed to have been killed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the Islamic State militant network Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a raid conducted by the US special forces operations in northwest Syria on Saturday, US media reported on Sunday. According to the sources, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was targeted in Syria&#8217;s Idlib province. A US official said final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":316119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[11928,64,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316121,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316118\/revisions\/316121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/316119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}