ISIS releases new Video of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (simp. characters)

ChinesePod News (May 01, 2019) Edited

An ISIS video released this week purportedly features its group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, one of the most wanted men in the world. Baghdadi has not appeared in any ISIS videos for the last five years. The new video shows Baghdadi reveling in the Sri Lanka bombings and encouraging his followers to keep fighting.

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