Baghdadi hid in Syrian war region full of menace, pain

October 29, 2019 8:33 AM

ISTANBUL (WASHINGTON POST) - When US forces found Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militant group, he was not in some forgotten border town or remote patch of desert but in Syria's Idlib province, a place where Baghdadi surely knew he was surrounded by enemies, and eyes.

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