Activist video purports to show moment of US raid on al-Baghdadi ISIS compound. Photos show the wreckage left in its wake.
Trump said the US had Baghdadi under surveillance for several weeks before forces landed in eight helicopters at the leader's compound and targeted the side of the building, avoiding the main door, which he said they knew was boobytrapped.
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.
فيديو يوضح مكان الغارات التي إستهدفت قرية باريشا بريف إدلب الشمالي ليلا برشاشات الطيران المروحي وغارات من طائرات حربية. pic.twitter.com/6tJJ7CmyKE
— Mohamad Rasheed محمد رشيد (@mohmad_rasheed) October 27, 2019Trump said that no US personnel were killed, but “a large number of Baghdadi’s fighters and companions were killed with him” and he would announce the exact number of deaths in the future.
Trump said 11 children were removed from the compound alive and some adults surrendered. He would specify how many survivors there were, but he said there were “more dead than alive."
US forces were in the compound for two hours and seized “highly sensitive material and information” on Isis, Trump said, signaling a major victory amid the president's controversial decision to order US retreat from northern Syria that allowed Turkish forces to attack the Kurds.
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