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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)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the left’s beloved ‘religious scholar’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, to announce that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed during a US raid in Syria. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

EDITORIAL: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dies, along with his dreadful caliphate

By 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)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi tried to stay healthy in Syria, companion says

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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)

Security increased at ISIS prisons after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s death

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Illustration on the neutralization of al-Baghdadi by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

U.S. troops and president deserve praise for death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Cal Thomas

President Donald Trump walks from the podium after speaking in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid raises new ISIS fears, questions

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee, leaves the Capitol in Washington after a closed-door interview with acting Assistant Secretary of State Philip Reeker on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Democrats Trump impeachment drive undeterred by Al-Baghdadi raid

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

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)

Analysis: With ISIS death, Trump touts much-needed triumph

By JONATHAN LEMIRE - Associated Press

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)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid involved Russia, Turkey, Iraq, Kurds, Donald Trump says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

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)

The tip, the raid, the reveal: The takedown of al-Baghdadi

By DEB RIECHMANN and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi DNA testing confirms death, Donald Trump says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, speaks during an interview on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2019, in Florence, S.C. (AP Photo/Sarah Blake Morgan)

Joe Biden celebrates Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi death, doesn’t mention Donald Trump

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

This image made from video posted on a militant website on Monday, 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-Baghdadi acknowledged in his first video since June 2014 that IS lost the war in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz that was captured last month by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (Al-Furqan media via AP)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, believed dead in U.S. military raid

By By Robert Burns, Deb Reichmann and Eric Tucker - Associated Press

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘dead’ after U.S. military raid, Donald Trump says

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This image made from video posted on a militant website on Monday, 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-Baghdadi acknowledged in his first video since June 2014 that IS lost the war in the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz that was captured last month by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. (Al-Furqan media via AP)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, appears in video for first time in 5 years

By Guy Taylor and Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

The Syrian Democratic Forces fighters who drove the Islamic State from its last strongholds called Monday for an international tribunal to prosecute thousands of foreign Islamic State fighters rounded up in the campaign against the extremist group. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Hunt intensifies for Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file photo released on April 25, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, young boys known as the &quot;caliphate cubs&quot; hold their rifles as they parade after graduating from a religious school, in Tal Afar, near Mosul city, north Iraq. The Arabic words, center, read: &quot;A parade of caliphate cubs after their graduation from a religious school.&quot; (Militant website via AP, File)

Timeline of the rise and fall of the Islamic State group

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivers a sermon at a mosque in Iraq during his first public appearance, July 5, 2014. The Islamic State group released on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017 a purported audio recording from top leader al-Baghdadi. (Militant video via AP) ** FILE **

U.S. names al-Baghdadi confidant as ‘Global Terrorist,’ says ISIS ‘down but not out’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Shiite Muslims burned an effigy of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in June, but many enemies of the Islamic State group don't think its leader has gone to the ash heap of history just yet. (Associated Press)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, not confirmed dead or alive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

No Fox apology in fight with New York Times about raid story

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press