Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi Death

I saw that another classmate already posted about this incident, but it popped up on my phone as a news alert and was very interesting to read bout. In a Washington Post article from today, October 27th, it states that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State commander, was caught by an American Special Ops team and blew himself up before being captured. The article talks about the importance of his death as he was a man that the United States had been tracking for a number of months, months where Baghdadi brought violence and terror throughout the middle east. This incident connects well to our course in connection with current events in the Middle East, and although Baghdadi is now dead, Trumps plan to pull troops out of the Middle East is still in action. It will be interesting to see how Baghdadi’s death impacts Middle Eastern culture and the relationship with the United States and will definitely be something to look at going forwards. I will post the link to the lengthy Washington Post article here.