The Kremlin said on Monday that US President Donald Trump will have made a major contribution to the fight against international terrorism if a US assertion that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead is true.
Iraqi youth watch the news of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi death, in Najaf, Iraq October 27, 2019. (REUTERS/Alaa al-Marjani/File Photo/MANILA BULLETIN)
Trump on Sunday announced that Baghdadi had killed himself during a daring overnight raid by elite US special operations forces in Syria.