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Involved. a ground force having entered before air strikes followed in to perhaps clear up the scene behind. we will hear details in time. long time allies fighting, the syrian kurds, their leader said they were involved in providing intelligence for a historic operation. that's massively complicated pause president trump green lighted a turkish incursion against the kurds making life very complicated given how close the turkish border, this particular raid and quite likely the world's most wanted man, was hiding out. this will be unpacked in the hours ahead as we learn who participated in thi...

Operation got under way. now, cnn cannot confirm this is the raid that targeted al baghdadi. according to a senior american military official, al baghdadi detonated a suicide vest as they carried out the raid. president trump expected to announce the details in a news conference which will take place later this morning. isis last its last physical stronghold back in march. >> sam kylie joins us now. what is the recollection there where you are? >> reporter: the defense ministry has confirmed there was prior coordination with the ministry of defense and u.s. forces prior to this operation. so...

The commander on the scene, probably jsoc commander saying we have good intelligence that al baghdadi is at this location. joani, the hts commander, his enemy, an al qaeda operative may have been on the scene. early indicators were quite a few people were struck in the raid. the final go is from the commander in chief but comes from the commander on the ground saying we have high intelligence on this. we can strike without extreme danger to our troops. >> do you think turkey was involved in any way with this? >> good question, martin. what i'm concerned about, was turkey involved in the operat...

Were in the know in that area which is an area right on the doorstep of turkey, just about three miles into syria from turkey where this operation was conducted. now, as you had local eyewitnesses reporting a battle for an hour with aircraft. clearly the movement of aircraft through an airspace that is complex but at the moment dominated in that area by turkey. but also shared quite often with russian and assad, the government in damascus. a very complex environment but a huge success in symbolic terms for the united states and their

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 terror network several months due to injury. in april of this year, isis released what was reportedly...