{"id":99580,"date":"2017-07-22T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=99580"},"modified":"2017-07-22T19:49:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-22T14:19:34","slug":"isis-chief-baghdadi-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/isis-chief-baghdadi-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Chief Baghdadi is alive &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday that he believes ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive, following various claims he was dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I think Baghdadi&#8217;s alive&#8230; and I&#8217;ll believe otherwise when we know we&#8217;ve killed him,&#8221; Mattis told Pentagon reporters. &#8220;We are going after him, but we assume he is alive.&#8221;There have been persistent rumors that Baghdadi has died in recent months.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-99581 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/mattis-l-reu.jpg\" alt=\"ISIS Chief Baghdadi is alive ...\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a longtime conflict monitor, last week said it had heard from senior ISIS leaders in Syria&#8217;s Deir Ezzor province that Baghdadi was dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-99582 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/abu-bakr-al-baghdadi_650x400_71478153646.jpg\" alt=\" ISIS Chief Baghdadi is alive ...\" width=\"579\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Russia&#8217;s army said in mid-June that it was seeking to verify whether it had killed the ISIS chief in a May air strike in Syria.<br \/>\nWith a $25 million US bounty on his head, Baghdadi has kept a low profile but was rumored to move regularly throughout ISIS-held territory in Iraq and Syria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday that he believes ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive, following various claims he was dead. &#8220;I think Baghdadi&#8217;s alive&#8230; and I&#8217;ll believe otherwise when we know we&#8217;ve killed him,&#8221; Mattis told Pentagon reporters. &#8220;We are going after him, but we assume he is alive.&#8221;There have been persistent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[50080,50076,7916,11307,50078,241,34418,25761,50073,50075,50074,50079,50077,22818],"class_list":["post-99580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politicalnews","category-top-stories","tag-25-million-us-bounty","tag-alive","tag-baghdadi","tag-britain","tag-deir-ezzor-province","tag-friday","tag-human-rights","tag-iraq","tag-isis-chief","tag-jim-mattis","tag-pentagon-chief","tag-russia-army","tag-senior-isis-leaders","tag-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/nnnnn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}