Baghdadi Dead
Posted on AllSides October 28th, 2019
“U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday announced that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself during a daring overnight raid by elite U.S. special operations forces in Syria.” (Reuters)
The left celebrates the news but argues that Trump’s foreign policy moves may lead to an ISIS resurgence.
“President Donald Trump can certainly take a victory lap for the operation that killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi… there was certainly considerable continuity between the Obama plan against ISIS and the Trump plan, but Trump did give his military...