Something very big has just happened!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 27, 2019
Newsweek says the big news is that ISIS leader al-Baghdadi has been killed in a raid.
The United States military has conducted a special operations raid targeting one of its most high-value targets, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS), Newsweek has learned. President Donald Trump approved the mission nearly a week before it took place.
Amid reports Saturday of U.S. military helicopters over Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, a senior Pentagon official familiar with the operation and Army official briefed on the matter told Newsweek that Baghdadi was the target of the top-secret operation in the last bastion of the country’s Islamist-dominated opposition, a faction that has clashed with ISIS in recent years. A U.S. Army official briefed on the results of the operation told Newsweek that Baghdadi was killed in the raid.
With independent confirmation from the military, and the implausibility of (even) Donald Trump lying about a thing like this, I think we’re probably good to accept that al-Baghdadi has been put down.