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This file image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, and displayed at a Pentagon briefing, shows an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. An Iraqi court issued a death sentence Wednesday, July 10, 2024, against one of the wives of the late brutal Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, alleging that she was complicit in crimes committed against Yazidi women captured by the militant group. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

Iraqi court sentences wife of slain Islamic State leader to death for crimes against Yazidi women

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Vice President Mike Pence pets facility dogs Goldie, right, and Truman, left, as he visits patients and their families and care providers at the USO Warrior and Family Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Four-legged heroes: Congress weighs valor medal for military dogs

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Civilians fled as Iraqi forces advanced on Mosul in 2017 after oppressive occupation by the Islamic State. Shifa al-Nima, a Muslim religious scholar, said he “issued fatwas to confiscate houses of displaced people and permitted ISIS fighters to blow up mosques.” (Associated Press)

Shifa al-Nima, ISIS leader, confessions provide look into atrocities

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This file image made from video posted on a militant website April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP, File)

ISIS group claims to have executed Christians in Nigeria in response to leader’s death: Reports

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and first lady Melania Trump, present Conan, the military working dog injured in the successful operation targeting Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, before the media in the Rose Garden at the White House, Monday, Nov. 25, 2019 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Conan, the hero dog, honored by Trump at the White House

By Dave Boyer and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - This file image made from video posted on a militant website April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. In his last months on the run, al-Baghdadi was agitated, fearful of traitors, sometimes disguised as a shepherd, sometimes hiding underground, always dependent on a shrinking circle of confidants. (Al-Furqan media via AP, File)

Trump says US on the hunt for new Islamic State’s leader

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

Undated handout photo made available by unnamed government sources showing a woman identified as Asma Fawzi Muhammad al-Qubaysi, a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday Nov. 6, 2019. A senior Turkish official said the woman was among a group of 11 Islamic State suspects detained in a police operation in Turkey's Hatay province, near the border with Syria, on June 2, 2018.(Handout via AP)

Erdogan: Al-Baghdadi’s inner circle trying to enter Turkey

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

In this Oct. 27, 2019, file photo, people look at a destroyed house near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, after an operation by the U.S. military that targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed, File)

In last days, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sought safety in shrinking domain

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

This image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, and displayed at a Pentagon briefing, shows an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Department of Defense via AP)

ISIS and Syria after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Jed Babbin

This image released by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, and displayed at a Pentagon briefing, shows an image of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Department of Defense via AP)

Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi

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U.S. Central Command Commander Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie speaks, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at a joint press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington on the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

U.S. commander: Syria drawdown didn’t complicate Baghdadi raid

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Video of the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid is displayed as U.S. Central Command Commander Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie speaks, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, at a joint press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Kenneth McKenzie details Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid, corrects casualty count

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This file image made from video posted on a militant website April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP, File)

Tiptoeing around the beast al-Baghdadi, Dems try to dismiss Trump’s foreign policy chops

By Tammy Bruce

In this Oct. 24, 2019, photo, released by the U.S. Army Reserve, U.S. Airmen check their manifest for military equipment to be loaded onto a cargo plane at Kobani Landing Zone (KLZ), Syria. Pivoting from the dramatic killing of the Islamic State group's leader, the Pentagon is increasing U.S. efforts to protect Syria's oil fields from the extremist group as well as from Syria itself and the country's Russian allies. It's a new high-stakes mission even as American troops are withdrawn from other parts of the country.(U.S. Army Reserve photo by Staff Sgt. Joshua Hammock via AP)

The Latest: Islamic State leader buried at sea, US says

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Acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan, left, FBI Director Christopher Wray, second from left, acting Director of the National Counterterrorism Center at the office of the Director of National Intelligence Russell Travers, second from right, and Department of Homeland Security undersecretary for intelligence and analysis David J. Glawe, right, wait to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, during a hearing on domestic terrorism. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Pentagon releases new details on al-Baghdadi raid

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, announcing that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group who presided over its global jihad and became arguably the world's most wanted man, is dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Liberals deride Trump for … taking out the world’s worst terrorist?

By Joseph Curl

This file image made from video posted on a militant website April 29, 2019, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, being interviewed by his group's Al-Furqan media outlet. (Al-Furqan media via AP, File)

The end of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi but the Islamic State continues

By Clifford D. May

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bill Hagerty poses for a photo after an Associated Press interview at a regional meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. Hagerty is not wavering from his staunch support of President Donald Trump, defending him from Democrats' impeachment efforts while heaping praise on the president for his handling of the economy and the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)

Senate candidate Hagerty heaps praise on Trump at conference

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

People look at a destroyed houses near the village of Barisha, in Idlib province, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, after an operation by the U.S. military which targeted Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State group. President Donald Trump says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a U.S. military operation in Syria targeted the Islamic State group leader. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Donald Trump says U.S. forces kill second top Islamic State leader

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Vice President Mike Pence is welcomed by active duty soldiers, friends, and family after an introduction by Major General Ken Kemper on Fort Hood on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019.(Jeromiah Lizama/The Killeen Daily Herald via AP)

Pence tells troops in Texas that terrorism fight ‘goes on’

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