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A view from operation area where allegedly Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in, on October 27, 2019 in northwestern Syria in Idlib, Syria .
Graphic photos and videos show widespread wreckage in the same region of Syria in which ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a US raid.
President Donald Trump provided vivid detail of the mission on Sunday, the extremist leader died "whimpering and crying and screaming" after detonating a suicide vest in a dead-end tunnel with three of his young children.
After a flurry of helicopter attacks, the group's compound was left in sparse remnants overnight into Sunday and videos and photos of what activists and media on the ground say are piles of rubble and other widespread damage from the raid began to surface online.
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Graphic photos and videos show widespread wreckage in the same region of Syria in which ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a US raid.
President Donald Trump, speaking in a press conference on Sunday, painted a vivid picture of the mission that he said left the extremist leader "whimpering and crying and screaming" as he died after detonating a suicide vest in a dead-end tunnel with three of his young children.
Several US forces targeted the leader's compound, which is situated in the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha near the border with Turkey, from the air, sending off a flurry of blasts overnight Saturday.