Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, ISIS leader, April 2019

Date
April 2019
Name of Author
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Body

First video appearance since 2014:

“Our battle today is a battle of attrition with the enemy ... Jihad continues until judgment day, and God ordered us to jihad, but not to victory.”Nayera Abdallah Mahmoud and Ali Abdelaty, “Islamic State airs video purporting to be leader al-Baghdadi,” Reuters, April 29, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-baghdadi/islamic-state-airs-video-purporting-to-be-leader-al-baghdadi-idUSKCN1S51QB.

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We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

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