US President details Daesh leader al-Baghdadi's last moments

US President Donald Trump says Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi blew himself up, dying "like a dog," and "like a coward" after American forces trapped him inside a dead-end tunnel.

"Last night the United States brought the world's number one terrorist leader to justice," Trump said while addressing the media at the White House on Sunday.

The president said the Daesh leader detonated his suicide vest while “crying and whimping” during an overnight raid by American special ops forces in Syria.

He said the explosion was so strong that al-Bghdadi’s body was “mutilated” and the tunnel was destroyed but forensics teams were able to identify his remains.

"He reached the end of the tunnel as our dogs chased him down. He ignited his vest, killing himself and his three children. His body was mutilated by the blasts. The tunnel had caved on him," Trump claimed.

Al-Baghdadi's identity was confirmed by on-site DNA tests "15 minutes" after he was killed, Trump said, adding, the tests provided "certain, immediate and totally positive" identification that the body belonged to the terrorist chief the US has hunted for so long.

He noted that many of al-Baghdadi’s “people” were killed in the operation but no American soldiers were killed or injured.

Following Trump's announcement, the Iraqi military issued a statement, saying that its National Intelligence Service found al-Baghdadi's location and provided it to the United States.

"After constant monitoring and the formation of a specialized task force over an entire year, the Iraqi National Intelligence Service acting on accurate information was able to locate the den in which the head of Daesh terrorists Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and those with him were hiding in the Syrian province of Idlib," the statement added.

Meanwhile, the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) also claimed on Sunday that the operation that killed al-Baghdadi took place after its intelligence pinpointed his location.

Senior SDF official Redur Xelil said at a news conference that their forces would now intensify intelligence operations and efforts to chase down Daesh sleeper cells.

An official at the Russian Ministry of Defense said following Trump's announcement that Moscow had no reliable information on the US operation that killed al-Baghdadi

"The Russian Ministry of Defense does not have reliable information on the US servicemen conducting in the Turkish-controlled part of the de-escalation zone of Idlib an operation on yet another 'elimination' of the former IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," Major-General Igor Konashenkov was quoted by RIA news agency as saying.

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