INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
after a US military raid in Syria's Idlib region, US media reported early Sunday.Baghdadi may have killed himself with a suicide vest as US
special operations forces descended, media said citing multiple government sources.He was the target of the secretly planned operation
approved by President Donald Trump, officials said.Long pursued by the US-led coalition against the ISIS, Baghdadi has been erroneously
reported dead several times in recent years.Officials told ABC News that biometric work was underway to firm up the identification of those
killed in the raid.The White House announced Trump would make a "major statement" Sunday at 9am (1300 GMT), without providing
details.Baghdadi, a native of Iraq around 48 years old, built the violent terrorist movement into a potent force, in 2014 establishing its
own "caliphate" territory across large swathes of Syria and Iraq.It was blamed for the deaths of thousands of civilians, in summary
organization and ousted it from its claimed territory in a two-year campaign, finally declaring victory over ISIS in March of this year.The
United States had posted a $25 million reward for information on his whereabouts.In rare video and audio messages this year Baghdadi called
on ISIS fighters to regroup and try to free thousands of their comrades captured by the US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces in northeastern
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