Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi in Iraq Near Border with Syria

Date: 02 June 2019 - 21:42

News ID: ۶۶۶۳۸

BAGHDAD (Dispatches) – Daesh ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is hiding in the western Iraqi deserts of al-Anbar province at the border with Syria, Iraqi sources reported.
The Arabic-language al-Ma'aloumeh news website quoted an intelligence source in Hashd al-Shaabi popular forces command center in al-Anbar province as saying that according to the latest intelligence, al-Baghdadi has sheltered in a hidden tunnel in al-Husayniyat region in the northern parts of the town of al-Ratbah in western al-Anbar.
He added that the security forces are mulling operations to take control of the tunnel, and said that given the heavy deployment of security forces in al-Ratbah region near the border with Syria and closure of all roads, al-Baghdadi and the terrorists under his command cannot escape.
The source underlined that given the fact that the U.S. fighter jets have not bombed the Daesh’s hideouts and tunnels in the region, the American forces are likely aware of his presence in al-Ratbah desert areas.