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Islamic State Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Dead After U.S. Raid

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On Sunday, President Trump confirmed the founder and leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed after a U.S. special operations mission in northwest Syria.

Here & Now's Robin Young speaks with Graeme Wood (@gcaw), a lecturer at Yale University, staff writer for The Atlantic and the author of "The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State."

This segment aired on October 28, 2019.

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