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October 29, 2019

Menendez: Not quite 'mission accomplished' yet for WH after ISIS leader al-Baghdadi's death

Sen. Bob Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, cautioned the Trump administration that "it's not time to put a 'Mission Accomplished' banner over the White House," just days after the covert U.S. military operation in Syria that resulted in the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

October 28, 2019

Al-Baghdadi informant was inside compound at time of raid, Kurdish general tells Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ

The U.S. raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was months in the making and involved significant intelligence from Kurdish allies in Syria – including a rare informant at the heart of ISIS who was inside the compound at the time of the raid, Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ has learned.

October 28, 2019

Biden won't give Trump any credit for al-Baghdadi raid

A day after President Trump revealed that a daring U.S. military raid resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden made a point of not giving the commander-in-chief any credit for the success. 

October 28, 2019

ISIS spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, potential al-Baghdadi successor, also killed in Syria, official says

Islamic State spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, considered a potential successor to terror leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also was killed in Syria, a senior State Department official confirmed to Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ on Monday.

October 27, 2019

Trump: 'Beautiful,' 'talented' military dog in al-Baghdadi raid wounded by explosive blast

President Trump on Sunday said military dogs chased Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi down a dark underground tunnel before he detonated a suicide vest that injured one of the dogs.

October 27, 2019

Al-Baghdadi takedown catches Dems flat-footed, blunts criticism of Trump's Syria pullback

President Trump's successful operation to take out Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sent Democrats scrambling on Sunday, as several top party leaders had complained publicly in recent days that the White House had no "real plan" to combat the terror group following the U.S. pullout in Syria.

October 27, 2019

Trump determined to destroy ISIS 'unlike anybody I've ever met,' Lindsey Graham says

President Trump "changed the rules of engagement" the government uses to fight the Islamic State terror network, and in doing so, brought down its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said at the White House on Sunday, following al-Baghdadi's death at the hands of U.S. special forces.

October 27, 2019

America 'woke up to learn' that US will destroy any terror group that threatens it, Pence says

The United States woke up on Sunday to learn its government will stop at nothing to destroy any terrorist group that threatens American interests or intends to do its citizens harm, Vice President Mike Pence said on "Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ Sunday" this week.

October 27, 2019

Ratcliffe: Intel Committee hasn't had terror-related briefing in 'over a month' due to impeachment inquiry

Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, praised the Trump administration for conducting an operation in Syria that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but said the House Intelligence Committee on which he serves has failed to address ISIS or other terrorism-related issues lately because of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.

October 9, 2019

Former CIA whistleblower blasts media, dismisses unnamed official who flagged Trump-Ukraine call

A former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the use of waterboarding against Middle Eastern detainees claimed the individual in the Trump-Ukraine case is not a real whistleblower.