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How ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed his own kids during fatal raid on his compound by US troops

In October 2019, after years in hiding, US forces managed to track down Baghdadi to his lair in north western Syria.

A total of eight helicopters transporting 70 elite Delta Force troops flew over territory controlled by Russia and Syria before landing at the compound.

Soldiers wearing night vision goggles swooped on the booby-trapped building prompting Baghdadi to flee down a secret tunnel with his own kids.

A small unit chased the ISIS boss down with an attack dog before the sick fanatic ignited his suicide vest killing himself and his children.

Thankfully, the soldiers and the heroic animal survived, despite being injured.

US forces rescued a number of civilians including 11 children - however they could not save the two youngsters that Baghdadi took with him.

According to then-US President Donald Trump, Baghdadi "died like a dog."

At the time, he said: "The thug who tried so hard to intimidate others spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic and dread, terrified of the American forces bearing down on him

"He was a sick and depraved man and now he's gone."

Baghdadi first came to prominence from a pulpit of the Grand Mosque in Mosul following ISIS' capture of the city in 2014.

The jihadi chief announced the founding of an Islamic caliphate and awarded himself the title Caliph Ibrahim.

Yet, video of the speech was the last time he would be seen before a 2019 video of him calling for attacks on the West.

During his time in hiding, he acquired the nicknames the Ghost, the Phantom and the Invisible Sheikh - and would even reportedly wear a mask while talking to his loyal band of followers.

Rumours of his sick depravity include him raping little girls and keeping women as "sex slaves.

This included the sexual assault of US aid worker Kayla Mueller who was later killed by the evil group.