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Turkey Captures Sister of Slain ISIS Leader in Syria

Turkey Captures Sister of Slain ISIS Leader in Syria

Video of the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid. (Andrew Harnik/AP)

Monday, 04 November 2019 06:26 PM EST

Turkey captured the sister of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday in the northern Syrian town of Azaz, a senior Turkish official told Reuters, and is interrogating her and her husband and daughter-in-law who were also detained.

"Rasmiya Awad was captured in a raid on a container near Azaz," the official said. "We hope to gather a trove of intelligence from Baghdadi’s sister on the inner workings of ISIS," he added.

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Turkey captured the sister of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday in the northern Syrian town of Azaz, a senior Turkish official told Reuters, and is interrogating her and her husband and daughter-in-law who were also detained.
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