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Identifiers. al baghdadi has been in hiding for five years and locating him was based on crucial cia intelligence. donald trump is going to make a statement about 9:00 p.m. eastern, saying something big has just happened. nick paton walsh has been following this over the last couple of hours. the reper cushicussions will be far and wide. but what does it mean for the savagery that was isis? >> reporter: this is an ideological blow to isis. its author that enabled it to get thousands behind it, c...

Declaring the caliphate. with baghdadi at its helm, claiming lineage from mohammed. this was baghdadis moment, and isis rose fast. and then, can the attack and occupation of mosul. the deheadings of western hostages. the besieging of kabani. horrors, marked by an obscene worship of violence. all this is visible and doubtless, the key decisionmaker. one of more terrifying things about isis he created, is his obsession of acts of murder, but its harnessing of social media, to create a global franc...

Brussels, atrocities committed by people, to commit atrocities and even die for it. but in november 2014, rumors of an air strike hitting him, and within a week, a recording of his speech. it became a pattern. no public appearances, mixed with randomly released audio statements. officials believe he was injured in may of 2017, and had to take five months away from his leadership duties. from that moment onwards, what was left of isis caliphate collapsed in on itself. mosul, freed from their grip...

Isis. its critics are allowing it to be creative. i saw myself arriving and crossing over the border in areas that would become the isis so-called caliphate. these questions about development and how they inserted themselves into the area. this is a victory for donald trump. he will make the most of it he possibly can and exceed our expectations. at the same time, you cannot take away from any of this the extraordinary feat of u.s. military objections. pulled off the most important goal in the f...

And reiterated to them our commitment to the enduring defeat of isis. >> and obviously this is a huge blow to isis, to have their leader, al bagdadi, killed. is there now concern that isis might lash out, that they might try to stage some sort of terrorist attack to show the world, were still here? >> well, you prepare for everything. but youre right, this is a devastating blow, their leader, their founder, an inspirational leader in many ways. when he formed isis in 2014, it led to establishing...

Heat for the operation involving the kurds. did the kurds help in this situation? >> we had some help from outside partners. >> but the main u.s. allies in that region are the kurds. >> thats right. im just not going to get into details right now. >> okay. the general of the kurdish oe z forces says they did play a role. >> the sdf has ben good partners for the last few years. theyve been instrumental to us helping to defeat and destroy the physical caliphate of isis. we remain in contact with t...

Enduring defeat. thats why we monitor the situation, make sure as we see groups pop up or coalesce, or establish a training camp, we go in and take them out so theyre no longer a threat to the united states, our allies or partners. >> but theyre not fully defeated. >> its a physical caliphate. its hard to defeat an ideology. were going to have to stay on top of this and make sure we have the capability to go in and destroy targets as they arise. >> when are all you saying troops going to leave s...

Ongoing battle against the so-called islamic state. claims coming from the government in baghdad. they were involved in providing intelligence that ed ultimately to this strike. in the end, the future has gone from a size of great britain tearing up the colonial borders as they saw them, declaring a caliphate, now crushed militarily. the idea remains. now they will be competing with al qaeda for the international jihadi franchise. while its a little odd, al baghdadi, if he was killed in this vil...

He was detained back in 2004 for several months at a u.s.-run prison in southern iraq. he was later released. two years after that, isis was created. and in 2010, he ascended on the leadership after his predecessors were killed in a u.s.-iraqi operation. in 2014, isis announced the creation of a caliphate. and al baghdadi declared himself the ruler of more than a billion muslims. since then, he kept a low profile. he is believed to have been wounded in an air streak and conceded control of the t...

Chief of the united states we obliterate his caliphate 100% in march of this year. todays events are another reminder that well continue to pursue the remaining isis terrorists to their brutal end. that also goes for other terrorist organizations. >> so, max, how do you interpret this messaging? how does the presidents decision to pull u.s. troops out of syria impact his goal to pursue remaining isis terrorists? >> doesnt make any sense, frederica. this is a good day for justice. we can be happy...