ISIS is very well known for the atrocities they commit in the name of their radical beliefs. From genocide to rape and executions of innocent people. The destruction and crimes against humanity caused by ISIS and its leader finally came back to them in the form of justice. ISIS leader Baghdadi was located and then raided on October 26th, which resulted in his death. 

Baghdadi was pinpointed from the wife of a Baghdadi aide and Courier that US forces captured. US forces had then executed a raid on Baghdadi’s compound. Baghdadi had run into a dead-end with 3 other children and killed himself with explosives. His compound was near the Syrian-Iraqi border. 6 enemy fighters were killed in the raid. The US took no casualties, with only 1 injured K-9.  

The following day, President Trump had made a public announcement about Baghdadi’s death. He had described Baghdadi as a thug and coward who was “crying, whimpering and screaming” as he ran from the US Special Forces.  

Many things happened to ISIS after the raid. About a week later, Baghdadi’s sister was captured by the Turkish government in Northern Syria, 50 miles where Baghdadi was raided. She was captured with her husband and 5 other children. Around the same time, ISIS proclaims that they have a new leader for ISIS, Abu Hamza al-Quraishi. Baghdadi’s recently captured sister-in-law does not know much about the new leader or Baghdadi himself. This news came at the similar time when military officials had said that ISIS had found a safe, ungoverned part of Iraq. “The fight against ISIS is continuous,” said U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. William Seely, commander of Task Force-Iraq. 

Even with the territory and leader loss, ISIS remains a threat to global security.