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Ridgewood NJ, according to Home Land Security On October 26, US Special Operations Forces killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in the northwest Syrian village of Barisha, located in the Idlib province. In 2014, Baghdadi declared the establishment of a worldwide caliphate in Iraq and Syria, leading many homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) to travel overseas to join the group and conduct attacks in the United States. Baghdadi appeared in only two propaganda videos, one announcing the caliphate in 2014 and one in April 2019.
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