the prophet managed to elude death and capture for years and even though i still state in syria iraq crumbled under his rule the group's goals are not defined by borders or one man its appeal comes from harnessing the grievances of some new muslims in iraq syria and across the world sen. well the group may not control much of iraq and syria anymore but it still maintains a covert network of supporters counter terrorism officials briefed the un security council in august stand revealed that the group has affiliates stretching from of ghana stand in south asia to nigeria and west africa which is considered to be its strongest affiliates with more than 4000 fighters of the 40000 foreign fighters who join deisel along with their families up to $30000.00 of them survived the u.s. led campaign to topple the group and i still remains very rich with around $300000000.00 at its disposal according to some estimates wellstone may have been as a senior lecturer in international relations at lancaster university he says eisel supporters may use bank debt is death to strengthen their coals. so i th

had probably envisioned because the created an organization which had large swathes of land in iraq and syria with millions of people under their control but now it exists as an ideology a. tactic building pockets of fighters which exist in some cities as well as the deserts between iraq and syria so in the next coming hours and days we will find out if i say replaces its leader but as you said the threat from this group the threat from the ideology and the underlying conditions because of which it was it was able to recruit people still remains also hearing from the turkish government as we heard from the u.s. president that turkey was informed about this raid the turkish government now wants an investigation into the movement of abu bakar al baghdadi how was he able to move from iraq into syria how did he move from place to place in syria how much did other partners know and how did he end up so close to the turkish border after this attack we've heard from kurdish fighters that another isolated allegedly has been killed. or was killed near. take a boarder has been this is according to the

defined by borders or one man its appeal comes from harnessing the grievances of sunday muslims in iraq syria and across the world senator. who's in iraq with reaction from baghdad his homeland. iraqis will contend with the psychological trauma caused by baghdad he and i saw for a generation whether it was being displaced from their homes losing a loved one being injured raped or simply living in fear you'd be hard pressed to find an iraqi family not affected by isis reign of terror in iraq with the news that al baghdadi is dead you can pretty much be guaranteed that most iraqis are simply saying good riddance to their fellow iraqi just as with osama bin laden and al qaeda the death of baghdad he does not necessarily mean a dissolution of eisel although of course it is in a weakened state there believed to be eisel sleeper cells across iraq they have been launching attacks i spoke to the top general of the u.s. led coalition to defeat eisel here in baghdad over the summer and he says that eisel has done a very good job of adapting and becoming a nimble insurgency that he says is resurging her

defeated is the ideology or are the underlying conditions with which i said was able to recruit in iraq and syriaare the major questions that many people are asking iceland which used to control territory all the way from iraq and syria the size of great britain which almost 10000000 people living under it has is no more it does not control any territory but the conditions do persist the persecution of people the lack of opportunities the joblessness the poverty the disenfranchisement all of those factors remain on the ground what else what the other thing that we heard from the president was how he thanked and the order in which he thanked his people who and countries who helped him carry out this operation the hand he thanked the russians the syrians the iraqis the turks and then in the end the kurdish fighters so it is a very interesting way in which he thanked all of them these are people who are fighting on the opposing sides of the war in syria something that trump has almost washed his hands off and he's saying that he does not want to be on the border between syria and turkey it wants the

successor of the prophet managed to elude death and capture for years and even though i still state in syria iraq crumbled under his rule the group's goals are not defined by borders or one man its appeal comes from harnessing the grievances of suddenly muslims in iraq syria and across the world sen. all right well let's introduce our pound out of talk more about this here in doha we have andrea's cregan assistant professor at the defense studies department king's college london joining us from a deal in the couldst on region of iraq is here what's mine who is an iraqi political analyst and via skype from lose in the u.s. state of delaware lawrence korb a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense welcome all of you so let me let me start with you then how significant is this in terms of the fight the larger fight against isis i think it is mostly of symbolic importance here for specially for the organization and i've said for years that this organization has become somewhat of a virtual caliphate it's become a franchise that other groups can buy into and then basically sell around the world and

successor of the prophet managed to elude death and capture for years and even though i still state in syria iraq crumbled under his rule the group's goals are not defined by borders or one man its appeal comes from harnessing the grievances of some new muslims in iraq syria and across the world. tens of thousands of people in lebanon formed a human chain that's crossed the length of the country demonstrators say they want to present a unified front in their call for the government to resign. from beirut. they came out in their tens of thousands connecting a 170 kilometers of lebanon's coastline and breaking sectarian divides by holding hands so we're making this a human chain to show the full support of all the lebanese people from the north the south. the many people are linking the way to the northern city of tripoli and stretching out. there i'm very human you have. to gather structure all of. this. despite promises of economic reforms by prime minister saad the people have not left the streets after 11 days of protests their message the same as on day one we want to the corruption. that's be

has already pivoted and adapted into a nimble insurgency and it is already resurging here in iraq and syria we've spoken to several analysts today and it can't be disputed they're saying that again if baghdadi is in fact dead it will have an impact a big one on iraq and the region one says that perhaps eisel by scramble for a bit as it appoints a new leader and that person tries to get their bearings eisel is already in a weakened state but it's definitely believe that the group will likely group and be in a position to launch attacks we spoke to another analysts who believes there is a possibility that i saw may join forces with the armed groups again another analyst is saying he is concerned that i still will in fact launch quote revenge attacks here in iraq again to a vengeance a possible death of baghdadi this is coming as there is a big domestic crisis in iraq we've been covering anti-government protests for the last 3 days that have killed more than 200 people. the government according to one analyst will likely try to paint this as a victory to try to diffuse tension among protesters

syria. i believe the right approach, we learned this lesson in iraq. we're applying it in syria. you have a small footprint of u.s. personnel and assets, intelligence assets, air cover and special forces who train and advise a much larger force, in this case the syrian kurds, to do the fighting and that's what the kurds did. they did t the fighting and, unfortunately, they did a lot of dying as well, over 10,000 died. why? because a recounting isis and that was our goal as well. with apart on the grant and that's how we should operate,, small footprint, identify reliable partners, given the support and let them fight the fight. >> host: plan as we understood earlier was perhaps even smaller footprint guarding some oilfields in syria and avenue u.s. troops stationed in western iraq to be able to go in it isis reemerges. but then some pushback from the iraqi government and whether those troops would be allowed. what is your understanding of the deployment picture right now? >> guest: again this is another example of the president's lack of knowledge, his ignorance and indifference

iraq. back then he became its leader in 2010 he then capitalized on the unrest in neighboring syria exploiting the security vacuum it started to capture territory and changed its name to islamic state in iraq and the levant before falling out with al qaida leader ayman al-zawahiri i so now the challenge is al qaida not only in syria and iraq but for the leadership of what it calls the global jihad this struggle but that he was once a prisoner and a u.s. run jail in iraq he is believed to have been born near the iraqi city of samarra in 1971 and said to have a ph d. in islamic studies from an iraqi university giving him religious credentials it isn't known what will back that he played in recruiting arab and foreign fighters or in orchestrating attacks abroad there have been questions about his grip on power and reports of dissent within the group's leadership but the man who declared himself caliph the would be successor of the prophet managed to elude death and capture for years and even though i still state in syria iraq crumbled under his rule the group's goals are not defined by borders or

with that we started with our car that then we moved toward the islamic state in iraq and then we moved today state in syria and in iraq which is i still probably are going to see a different form of ice in the coming years and unless we deal with the social economy political the grievances of the people. of syria and of iraq and of course of many other places around the region because i said now is almost split everywhere i'm not talking about the organization betsy i'm talking about the ideology that the thoughts of feisal i mean that is the issue that that is a sure that we need to deal with and you can deal with ideology by shooting ideology i mean you can't kill ideology by shooting at ideology you have to deal with ideology by dealing with the social economic political situation that created or contributed to the creation of that ideology and how much of a boosted eisel get by all the recent events in syria with u.s. troops pulling back well. i think i think. i think if we talked about this military level. and who we said that i said has been in fact. defeated in dakar defeated in mosul defeated and m

iraq. back then he became its leader in 2010 he then capitalized on the unrest in neighboring syria exploitingthe security vacuum it started to capture territory and changed its name to islamic state in iraq and the levant before falling out with al qaeda leader ayman al-zawahiri i see now the challenge is al qaida not only in syria and iraq but for the leadership of what it calls the global jihad this struggle but that he was once a prisoner in a u.s. run jail in iraq he is believed to have been born near the iraqi city of samarra in 1971 and said to have a ph d. in islamic studies from an iraqi university giving him religious credentials it isn't known what role baghdadi played in recruiting arab and foreign fighters or in orchestrating attacks abroad there have been questions about his grip on power and reports of dissent within the group's leadership but the man who declared himself caliph the would be successor of the prophet managed to elude death and capture for years and even though i still state in syria iraq crumbled under his rule the group's goals are not defined by borders or one

in 2014 i asked seized control of large parts of iraq and syria and declared the territory a caliphate a u.s. led international coalition for back and re took the territory over the course of about 2 years. but daddy was on the run and the us posted a $25000000.00 reward for information on his whereabouts in march this year the u.s. declared victory over i asked primitive only say many observers this year baghdadi reemerged releasing messages calling on i asked fighters to regroup now that he's believed to be dead the question is how the jihadi movement itself will endure without baghdadi. and with me in the studio now is the w.'s anya shot for not who is going to talk about the significance of al baghdadi killing if it will be in fact confirmed now on yeah my 1st question is just how reliable these reports are about al baghdadi his death well marianna the news of baghdad is killing should be take handled with a bit of care really over the last few years there have been several claims that but daddy had been killed in 2017 for example russian forces said that he had likely been killed

to eastern iraq it lost its last stronghold in syria in march this year weeks after back that he made his 1st appearance in 5 years putting to rest many unconfirmed reports of his death in a video the ice a leader wanted to show he was still in charge and along with his group survived the territorial defeat backed that he was behind the group's creation an expansion eisel originated in al qaida in iraq back then he became its leader in 2010 he then capitalized on the unrest in neighboring syria exploiting the security vacuum it started to capture territory and changed its name to islamic state in iraq and the levant before falling out with their leader ayman al-zawahiri i see now the challenge is al qaida not only in syria and iraq but for the leadership of what it calls the global jihad this struggle but that he was once a prisoner and a u.s. run jail in iraq he is believed to have been born near the iraqi city of samarra in 1971 and said to have a ph d. and islamic studies from an iraqi university giving him religious credentials it i

turkey and syria and then repositioning of those troops in eastern syria closer to the oil fields well i saw may not control much of iraq in syria anymore but it still maintains a covert network of supporters counter-terrorism officials brief the u.n. security council. in august and revealed that the group has affiliates stretching from afghanistan to nigeria which is considered to be its strongest affiliate with more than 4000 fighters of the 40000 foreign fighters who joined us along with their families up to $30000.00 of them survived the u.s. led campaign to topple the group and i still remains very rich with around $300000000.00 at its disposal according to some estimates well thomas pickering is a former us ambassador to the united nations he says baghdad is death does not mean it's the end of eyesore. this is the end of buck duddy but isis is a very differentiated and broken set of franchises with lots of initiative clearly being taken by local leaders local scenes in local regions and so this splitting up is part of isis's defense mechanism i think the disappearance of buck duddy means in fact that one leader is

military operation in syria now sources in syria iraq and iran say they've been informed about baghdad his death but it has yet to be officially confirmed by the united states officials there have confirmed the raid took place in italy a province in syria's northwest u.s. president donald trump is set to make a statement sunday morning after tweeting earlier that quote something very big has just happened all right for more i'm joined now by our middle east correspondent basile r.a.d who is in beirut so basile what do we know so far. morning. you have no lease moment the from 2 minutes ago the syrian observatory right out of human rights announced a few minutes ago that a u.s. . helicopter. would do as it was u.s. . called what. the syrian observatory said few minutes ago that between 8. u.s. special forces. on. the house of a senior. so. with the observatory for human. human rights the operation. to the sources you may call good. they have some flush some weak the some. of the. getting. out of his wives. his children as well as to mine own men. at the house. with a suicide vest accord

cried and screamed in the president's words before blowing himself up trump then thank sources in syria iraq and iran for taking a bill to achieve that their help in taking down the world's most wanted terrorists . u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwestern syria and accomplished their mission in grand style the u.s. personnel were incredible i got to watch much of it no personnel were lost in the operation while a large number of baghdad these fighters and companions were killed with him he died after running into a dead end tunnel whimpering and crying and screaming all the way earlier i spoke to our correspondent in washington pablo foley alias and i asked him to tell us a little bit more. yeah well you've just heard some of what president trump said in what was a very graphic statement there from the president he used very graphic language and confirmed that the fugitive lead their leader of the so-called islamic state abu bakar. died like a dog and a coward now like i said he went into quite graphic detail about his death and said that

well tom thanks russia syria turkey iraq and the kurds for intelligence which led to the raid some avengeof it has more from on the turkey syria border. there have been many questions that have been raised about how long he was there why did the us to use despicable time to take him out the u.s. president saying that he had been scoped in his words for days now and they decided that it was the right time to take him out he also thanked russia syria iraq turkey as well as kurdish fighters in syria so people have been asking questions about why in that particular order what sort of intelligence or information was given heard from the general who leads the kurdish fighters saying that there was for months a collaboration which happened between them and u.s. intelligence officials about the whereabouts of about that again the u.s. president saying that he had received some useful information from the kurds but he thanked everyone in the same breath we've been also hearing reactions from various countries who the president thanked the turkish defense ministry was the 1st saying that it had bee

iraq he was there. he basically became the kingmaker, both al-qaeda and the new organisation that he caught isis in syria as isil of the so—called islamic state. thank you very much for all of that. we will be getting a statement from president trump a little bit later. police say they are working to identify them all. a lorry driver from northern ireland will appear in court tomorrow charged with manslaughter. this man said 25 of them were from his home town. police in the uk said they were investigating a wider conspiracy after claims in vietnam that there were three lorries in convoy carrying more than 100 people. some have made it to the uk but others did not. translation: when they went about their parents had to sell or pawn their parents had to sell or pawn their houses to the bank to pay for their houses to the bank to pay for the trip. the young people left the country to earn a decent living but 110w country to earn a decent living but now they are dead in a strange country far away. after suffering horribly. 0ne country far away. after suffering horribly. one of those missing is this woman who

successor of the prophet managed to elude death and capture for years and even though i still state in syria iraq crumbled under his rule the group's goals are not defined by borders or one man its appeal comes from harnessing the grievances of some new muslims in iraq syria and across the world senator. pick up the headlines for you breaking news the world's most wanted man eisel leader abubakar album has been killed his death was confirmed a short while ago by u.s. president donald trump details over how detonated a suicide vest during the u.s. raid a northern syria a number of fighters were also killed as well as 3 children last night the united states brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice abu a car al baghdadi is dead he was the founder and leader of isis the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world the united states has been searching for baghdadi for many years capturing or killing baghdad he has been the top national security priority of my administration u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwe

defined by borders or one man its appeal comes from harnessing the grievances of some new muslims in iraq syria and across the world. well i still may not control much of iraq in syria anymore but it does still maintain a covert network of supporters counter-terrorism officials brief the un security council in august and revealed that the group has affiliates stretching from afghanistan in south asia to nigeria in west africa which is considered to be its strongest affiliate with more than 4000 fighters of the 40000 foreign fighters who joined us all along with their families of just 30000 of them survived the u.s. led campaign to topple the group and i saw remains very rich with around $300000000.00 at its disposal according to some estimates let's bring in him he's associate professor of conflict resolution of the door instead. the graduate studies he joins us now from our studio. was. was he operationally in charge or just now a figurine for the movement well i think since he left. with that the with the battle of muscle he lost that organizational structure and organizational command that h

well of that's an important development at least for those countless victims in iraq syria and elsewhere that suffered both under the rule and the wrath of the islamic state and that's been going on you know for almost a decade under a will but good by that the end before the for his predecessors. of all matter about daddy so for many countless victims for many of those who suffer than continue to suffer in iraq syria and elsewhere this is a very important day and no no no doubt it's also an important and symbolic day for the united states of been fighting islamic state but you know there's always a but a loss in syria for so many and i've been sort of watching a bit of what's going on in this social media already this morning and you can already detect so many saying well yes one butcher is is dead but what about the other butcher in damascus and the same thing in iraq he did notice that while many people are probably relieved. by that they could be dead but many have already also moved on and many today are basically looking for bread then and butter in you know in the various parts of

syria. baghdadi's death is a combination of years-long hunts after he declared a caliphate in iraq and syria 2014. cnn international correspondent ben wedeman is live for us in beirut. ben, explain the significance here. why is al baghdadi's death such a big deal? this is bigger than osama bin laden, according to the president. >> reporter: the difference between osama bin laden and abu bakr baghdadi ran a country, what was essentially a country, iraq and syria. it was the size of great britain and ruled more than 12 million people. that state was created very quickly. this was a man who really knew how to run a terrorist organization and turn it into, albeit, a very briefly lived terrorist state. and for him to be eliminated, certainly it does represent an important milestone in the fight against isis. however, even the pentagon's inspector general in august came out with a report that said that between syria and iraq, there are between 14,000 and 18,000 isis fighters still on the loose. isis still operates through affiliates in west africa, in libya, in egypt sinai peninsula, in afghanista

well known trump has thanked russia syria turkey and iraq for intelligence which led to the raid well some of binge a fight has more now from ray hadley on the turkey syria border. there have been many questions that have been raised about how long he was there why did the u.s. was despicable a time to take him out the u.s. president saying that he had been scoped in his words for days now and they decided that it was the right time to take him out he also thanked russia syria iraq turkey as well as kurdish fighters in syria so people have been asking questions about why in that particular order what sort of intelligence or information was given heard from the general who leads the kurdish fighters saying that there was for months a collaboration which happened between them and u.s. intelligence officials about the look where abouts of about that again the u.s. president saying that he had received some useful information from the kurds but he thanked everyone in the same breath we've been also hearing reactions from various countries who the president thanked the turkish defense mini

in 2014 i asked seized control of large parts of iraq and syria and declared the territory a kind of foot a u.s. led international coalition for back and re took the territory over the course of about 2 years. baghdad he was on the run and the us posted.

has iraq agreed to host the majority of the presence being pulled out of syria? >> we have a military presence in iraq. we have an ongoing military presence in parts of syria, but to be clear, you know, the president looked at the deployment of american forces in between traditionally kurdish syria and the turkish border, and essentially believed that that was not the right place for our forces to be. american forces went into syria, worked with our syrian kurdish allies to destroy the isis caliphate. the last inch of territory the isis caliphate was captured in march, and the president looked at the circumstances, where we had american forces essentially providing a safe zone patrol on the turkish border. that was not the mission. i have to tell you, as the father of a united states marine, i couldn't be more grateful that we have a commander-in-chief that is always asking about whether or not american forces have to be in harm's way. and if they're not on a mission, isis, the caliphate had been destroyed, the president said, we'll bring them home, but last night

"new york times" had reported there was up to 18,000 isis fighters across syria and iraq. the u.s. presence in syria was designed to roll up isis networks to the extent possible and most and poorly local forces and reconstitutes them after the losses of 10,000, they say, in the war against isis to build to in cells in the long term. as understand your special operation forces and green berets were in effort with ypg counterterrorism units to train them to do this on their own one day. so just pulled the plug on all that before has a chance to succeed, i think is a big mistake here. not planning at all for the withdrawal to the point where you see u.s. troops retreating and turkish backed forces firing on them as they retreat, which i had to read that three temps make sure i was reading it right, is just a picture of chaos. rather than the sort of near to midterm plan of stabilize these areas and is forced isis does e, we're seeing a really chaotic worst-case scenario withdrawing chaos. >> right. >> i've been pretty public about this. late last year we had a force posture that was no

quickly seizing on the vacuum in syria and iraq to emerge. mber, syria and iraq have always been and will always be the center of gravity for i.s.i.s. if we take the pressure off i.s.i.s. in those two countries, i.s.i.s. will be back. o reporter: mike, you ught up the kurds. senior admistration official told me today that they played a "very important role, no one should estimate their importance in baghdadi's death." after baghdadi's death the u.s. and kurdish fight rlings killed the folksman of i.s.i.s., trump administration vowing to maintain the strategy, is that enough to maintain what is clearly a vital relationship? >> we have to invest in the department of defense. the kurds have been with the united states for decades now. i think we have a practical feed to work with them but we also iv ew have a true moralve imperati to stand by those who stood by us. >> reporter: mike and hasan, thank you very much. >>hank you. >> woodruff: california is under a state of emergency with multiple wildfires burning at both ends of the state, threateni

syria. on to other news now and iraq's parliament has officially recognized those killed in recent nationwide protests as martyrs it means the families of more than $110.00 people killed in the unrest will be eligible for compensation the government also unveiled a more social reforms as it tries to quell the demonstrations that are now entering their 2nd week. of our distinguished casualties of the protests will be recognized as marchers and therefore their families will be compensated we will follow investigation procedures to uncover the events that have affected the protesters. while u.s. secretary of state mike compare has iraq's prime minister to exercise maximum restraint and to address the protest his grievances are also in jordan has more from washington. the statement about the iraqi protests from the u.s. state department is the 1st official comment from washington about these demonstrations it's a readout of the phone call which the secretary of state mike pompei o had with the iraqi prime minister and it's pretty tough in the statement pompei o apparently told the prime minister

of the islamic state rigidly it was just in iraq then morphed to become the islamic state in iraq and syria they came to grow a pretty large so-called caliph it not only here in iraq. but also in syria and he watched as mile by mile they lost all of it with the so-called caliphate being destroyed earlier this year it's thought that easter after the easter coordinated bombings in sri lanka that baghdadi released a video that many analysts have said appears to be authentic and the video was as much a message to the world as it was to his followers he knowledge that the caliph it had taken serious hit that it had in effect been lost but he said that the fight against the enemy would continue quote until judgment day but again dear and it's clear that here in iraq there are going to be a lot of people if in fact baghdadi was killed who are relieved to hear this news yeah and as a senator not the 1st time that baghdadi has been reported killed if it's true how did the death will be viewed there in iraq took us through what this means now billed as a show and its leadership there in iraq. well on

fighters because what he relied on was exploiting the grievances of the sunny population both in iraq and syriain iraq it was a shiite led government was in control of the country the security forces were really most of these tiny population in the center of of iraq they were afraid of the security forces they were afraid of the government in neighboring syria it was the same thing the saudis felt that they were under attack by an alawite led a government which is backed by iran so he used those 2 things he exploited the security vacuum and he exploited the grievances of the sunni population and so on he took control of territory in syria in iraq taking over cities declaring the state of iraq and the levant but soon people started to turn against him because of the way his fighters were dealing with the people they were oppressing people they were imposing a very strict interpretation of islamic law and. it was also under fire from rebel groups syrian opposition rebel groups who did not believe in the creation of of this islamic state he also had differences with al qaida in syria so he was up

and this is a problem for those who supported iran and lebanon and syria and in iraq because these are the all eyes of iran and lebanon syria and iraq today that are under so much public scrutiny on public pressure and the and the street pressure so in the southern part of iraq like it is syria and to day all over lebanon there are there is pressure defacto against against iranians allies especially hezbollah in lebanon and that's our subject now in lebanon but lebanon and the government in iraq are supported by iran and what we hear from the one is that they do not want regime change or government change i mean in lebanon relatively. speaking it has been still largely peaceful and it rock countless people now have been killed and injured and imprisoned there's some really life shootings out there in iraq and people are suffering and that the government's response to the basic demands of the people for you know justice freedom and more of the same economic rights and so on and so forth so here we find ourselves that a good number of people in the arab world notably iraq leban

with that runs the danger of the risk of isis quickly seizing on this vacuum in syria and iraq. er, syria and iraq have always and will lowest be at the center of gravity for isis. t if ye the pressure off isis in those two countries, isis will be back.po er: and you brought of the kurds. i want to k you about this. senior administration official tolde today that they played a "very important role, no e should underestimate theirol after killing the skesman, the trump administration vowing to maintain the strategy. is that enough to mainhis vital relationship? >> we have to invest in the intelligence community and the department of defense i think will continue to invest. the kurds have been with the united states for decades now. i think we have a practical need to work with them, but also a truee moral imperat stand by those who have stood by us. reporter: thank y very much to you both. >> thank you. ♪ judy: california is under a state of emergency with multiple wildfires burning at both ends of the state, threatening thousands of homes, including those of lebron james and arno

nighttime targeted read and it lived province in the northwest of syria trump thanked sources in russia syria iraq and turkey for their help with what he called taking down the world's most wanted terrorist the u.s. special operations forces executed a dangerous and daring nighttime raid in northwestern syria and accomplished their mission in grand style the u.s. personnel were incredible i got to watch much of it no personnel were lost in the operation while a large number of baghdad these fighters and companions were killed with him he died after running into a dead end tunnel whimpering and crying and screaming all the way all right we're now joined by our correspondent in washington pablo foley alias pablo we're a major announcement there by the president or more can you tell us. well you heard some snippets of it there lay that it was a very graphic statement from president trump who said the leader of the so-called islamic state. like a dog and a cow were an almost hour long news conference from president truman he went into a lot of detail about his death and he said that al baghdadi had ki

the resurgence of isis is a direct product of the gio strategic turmoil in iraq, syria and beyond. 're talking about, you cannot understand the resurgence, the surge of isis without understanding the civil wars in iraq and syria. how do you expect bashar al assad to deal with isis if the civil war in syria itself is a by-product of the basically clamped down by assad against the opposition. and in fact, what you have now in syria is that intensified gio strategic rivalists. you have turkey, russia, iran, the kurds, assad is on the turkish/syrian border. you have space isis, not just isis, you're talking about we have never said a word about al qaeda affiliates. you have 30 or 20,000 between 20 and 30,000 al qaeda affiliates in syria, not to mention iraq. so, we keep talking about the kurds and absolutely important that donald trump basically threw the kurds under the bus, but remember it provided a very important gift to the russians. he empowered assad further in syria and he also poured gasoline in the raging fire and the gio strategic struggle in syria and this all plays into the

president obama had withdrawn from the region in 2011 and made the difficult decision to redeploy to syria and iraq in 2014 because of the severity of this threat. it was a truly horrific enemy that is not gone. there are 10,000 fighters of isis in prison in northeastern syria that are likely to escape and the conditions of chaos and violence that will follow. maybe as a nation, we are willing to accept this threat of additional suicide bombs in europe and god for bid, the united states. , am not willing to accept that especially because what the united states achieved in fighting the islamic state was relatively low-cost. this was not a major invasion of the middle east. this was a limited deployment of special operations forces to take down the terrific enemy. what was one of the most successful and effective operations with a partner force in the history of the united states military, so we need to give the defense department credit for doing what it did so well and with relatively little cost, and ask the questions about what kind of threats we are willing to accept. host: if isis is able to re

to eastern iraq it lost its last stronghold in syria in march this year weeks after back that he made his 1st appearance in 5 years putting to rest many unconfirmed reports of his death in a video the ice a leader wanted to show he was still in charge and along with his group survive the territorial defeat backed that he was behind the group's creation an expansion eisel originated in al qaida in iraq that he became its leader in 2010 he then capitalized on the unrest in neighboring syria exploiting the security vacuum it started to capture territory and changed its name to islamic state in iraq and the levant before falling out with leader ayman al-zawahiri. now challenges al qaida not only in syria and iraq but for the leadership of what it calls the global jihad this struggle but that he was once a prisoner in a u.s. run jail in iraq he is believed to have been born near the iraqi city of samarra in 1981. and said to have a ph d. and islamic studies from an iraqi university giving him religious credentials it isn't known what role ba

he would still be in iraq but obviously despite the fact that the border was somewhere between iraq and syria was somewhat rebuild you know people are moving it's a transnational space where people move from east to west and he was constantly moving around so it was very difficult to pin him down because he had a very low profile i think trump's announcement to say that they captured quite a lot of interesting material relevant material is probably falls because i don't think he had quite a lot of stuff with amy he must have traveled very lightly and very flexibly here are smart let me turn back to you. this i mean a lot of people have made mention of the fact. that the conditions that led to the rise of i saw haven't been addressed and that's something that really. needs needs further attention what's your view on that. yes indeed them and since the when and when isis came or controlled all these large areas there was a sectarian situation in iraqi in iraq as a whole the areas that were predominantly sunni we're controlled by the probe by a sectarian shiite army longing to them prime ministe

i want to thank the nations of russia, turkey, syria and iraq.very dangerous mission. thank you as well to the great intelligence professionals who helped make this very successful journey possible. i want to thank the soldiers and sailors, airmen and marines involved in last night's operation. you are the very best there is anywhere in the world, no matter where you go. there is nobody even close. i want to thank general mark millie and ourjoint chiefs of staff, and i also want to thank our professionals who work in other agencies of the united states government and were critical to the mission's unbelievable success. last night was a great night for the united states and for the world. a brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, has violently been eliminated. he will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. he died like a dog, he died like a coward. the world is now a much safer place. god bless america. thank you. any questions? we have had him under surveillance for a couple of weeks. we knew a little bit abo

so was the iraq war but if remember in 2011 when the arab spring protester in egypt and in syria, the obama administration was winding down u.s. engagement in iraq and they were supposed to become the protests were supposed be this new way forward for america to engage with the middle east. the protesters were chanting american ideals, getting political support for the u.s. government and the organizing on the tools of americans can the new american capitalism, so facebook, google, twitter, and we deny phones. there was this moment vivian and i covered when we were, first met in 2011 in egypt that everything felt come protest on the street for connected with american news viewers here who were not just watching the protest on social media but, on tv also engaging the sharing facebook post. it captured this obama first-term mindset that we can all discuss it at a computer laptops and like our way to a better world. that wasn't the case and the reason we all ended up in syria to answer the question, , is because that's what every spring that ended. there were years of i think failed u.s

military operation in syria now sources in syria iraq and iran say they've been in form. baghdad is debt bondage has yet to be officially confirmed by the united states officials there have confirmed that the raid took place in italy a province in syria's northwest u.s. president down trump is set to make a statement at 9 am washington time after tweeting earlier that quote something very big has just happened. all right let's get more on this from our middle east correspondent basle r.a.d who joins us now from beirut hello to you basile so what is the latest i think you can tell us about this operation. the latest news of all these operations 8 american helicopters would u.s. special forces some sources from u.s. said that. the navy seals the special forces the commandos robey with from the navy sea they took. off from north syria basic question did the americans leave it would drop from north syria over this to have some bases over there so the operation remains i wouldn't have a north west. in. town in that district it's mainly. under the operated all of the. saudi the

but i think he has some experience in 40 years in that area in the southern part of turkey in iraq and syria many times we did that in iraq also in syria in turkey against. and also. terrorist and that's why i think this is not you know they will be maybe it was inevitable some casualties will be but i think it's very less and less because of the experience of turkey and also syrian fighters from you know is freedom fighters from turkey something like 50000 syrians and they know the area wait a while that's why i think this is an asset for turkish army in order to in order to to make you know. casualty assuming casualties but maybe sometimes we can hear some news and also if we can use some fake news about that from the side then we have to be very careful with news about the casualties but i think the turkish experience is enough for that gets a good point we have to be very careful that both sides may claim contradicting things when it comes to faith salahi's don't if you know this phrase did the united states though it's turkish ally it's sorry it's kurdish it's kurdish i was under the bu

mostly and iraq and syria. some analysts say al-baghdadi was radicalized after he was jailed by u.s. forces in iraq in 2004. he was held for 11 months including reportedly at the notorious abu ghraib prison. on sunday, morning president trump announced al-baghdadi's death in a televised address. preses. trump: no personnel were lost in the operation, while a large number of baghdadi's fighteters and companionons were killed with him. he died after running into a dead-end tunnel, whimperiring ad crying a and scrcreaming all the way. ththe compound had been clearedy this time with people either surrenderiring or being shot a d killed. 11 young children were movoved t of the house and arere unininju. the only ones remaining were baghdadi in the tunnel and he had dragged three of his young children with him. they were led to certain death. he reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. he ignited his vest, killing himself and the ththree childre. his body was mutilated by the blast. the tunnel had cav

any place close to the syria-iraq border, that would have been possible. but the fact that he was found -- again all based on speculation -- in western syria it's divided between the north of it, that would be under turkey and other organizations' control versus the south which is under the assad regime. that's not an area of american interest. if he was found in idlib, how did our forces get there? that remind us of the operation that took out bin laden in pakistan. it's the issue of getting the basic information, how was that possible? aishah: u.s. officials are working to confirm that this is in fact al-baghdadi through dna testing. what happens next? most of americans will want to know in the morning when the president makes this announcement at 9:00. what happens now? >> it depends on what the president is going to decide is in his own hands with regards to u.s. strategy. the assumption. our relentless campaign against isis will continue. as long as it threatens the national security of the united states and our allies. he made it clear the last time h

military operation in syria sources in syria iraq and iran say they've been informed about dani's deathbut it has yet to be officially confirmed by the u.s. american officials have confirmed the raid took place in the province in syria's northwest u.s. president donald trump is set to make a statement at 9 am washington time after tweeting earlier that quote something very big has just happened let's get more from our middle east correspondent battle of really you joins us from beirut. what do we know about this u.s. operation. and that we should still maybe the wait for the official announcement by the white house in a few hours but according to the current info that we have on the smallman. operation what's. operation according to the head of the syrian observatory for human rights among the amount of money told us. before know to go the separation all some of the. democratic forces because the force of the intelligence service for the s.d.f. detected one of the main the duties of main comment does for isis the name of william and he serves as well as the head of the secret service al

in 2014 i asked seized control of large parts of iraq and syria and declared the territory a caliphate a u.s. led international coalition for back and re took the territory over the course of about 2 years. back daddy was on the run and the us posted a $25000000.00 reward for information on his whereabouts in march this year the u.s. declared victory over i asked primitive early say many observers. baghdadi reemerged releasing messages calling on ai as fighters to regroup now that he's believed to be dead the question is how the jihadi movement itself will endure without baghdadi . all right so we do know that he has been on the run for several years now. and how powerful has this man been recently. before i answer a question i just received some in for i know about. democratic. forces in north syria just announced the killing of the what about it joint operation operation between. the american military forces or intelligence agencies so this was just a few seconds ago so. we got to go question. who was we think. since all last 3 years mainly since the early 'd march of 27 the old the

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