{"id":22209,"date":"2019-11-06T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T22:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/11\/06\/turkey-captures-al-baghdadis-wife-erdogan-says\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:56:38","slug":"turkey-captures-al-baghdadis-wife-erdogan-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/11\/06\/turkey-captures-al-baghdadis-wife-erdogan-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey captures al-Baghdadi\u2019s wife, Erdogan says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ANKARA, Turkey \u2014 Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/11\/05\/in-last-days-al-baghdadi-sought-safety-in-shrinking-domain\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi<\/a>, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan made the announcement while delivering a speech in the capital of Ankara but gave no other details. He did not say when or how the woman was captured or identify her by name. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Baghdadi was known to have four wives. One of his aides has said the shadowy IS leader had four wives, the maximum number he can have at one time under Islamic law. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe caught his wife, but we didn\u2019t make a fuss about it. I am announcing this today for the first time,\u201d Erdogan said, while criticizing the United States for leading a \u201ccommunications campaign\u201d about Baghdadi\u2019s slaying. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/11\/04\/turkey-says-it-captured-al-baghdadis-sister-in-syria\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19300454505883.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Turkey says it captured al-Baghdadi\u2019s sister in Syria<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Turkey captured the elder sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria on Monday, according to a senior Turkish official, who called the arrest an intelligence \u201cgold mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/10\/27\/trump-says-al-baghdadi-died-like-a-dog-in-us-commando-raid-in-syria\/\" target=_blank>The IS leader blew himself up<\/a> during an Oct. 26 raid by U.S. special forces on his heavily fortified safe house in the Syrian province of Idlib. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erdogan\u2019s announcement comes just days after Turkish forces captured al-Baghdadi\u2019s elder sister, identified as Rasmiya Awad, in the town of Azaz, in Aleppo province in northwestern Syria. Turkey has seized on both incidents to highlight what it says is its fight against the IS group, in the face of accusations that the Turkish military offensive last month to drive Syrian Kurdish fighters from northeast Syria would allow for a resurgence of the militant Islamic group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1476\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19309360978936.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Rasmiya Awad\" class=\"wp-image-46658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19309360978936.jpg.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19309360978936.jpg.jpg?resize=300,221 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19309360978936.jpg.jpg?resize=768,567 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19309360978936.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,756 1024w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19309360978936.jpg.jpg?resize=1536,1134 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Undated handout photo made available by unnamed government sources showing a 65-year-old woman known as Rasmiya Awad, who is the sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. (Handout via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azaz is part of a region administered by Turkey following previous military incursions to chase away IS militants and Kurdish fighters, starting in 2016. Allied Syrian groups manage the area known as the Euphrates Shield zone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awad was with her husband, daughter-in-law and five children when she was detained. A Turkish official said the 65-year-old sister is suspected of being affiliated with the extremist group and called her capture an intelligence \u201cgold mine.\u201d Authorities had posted a picture of the sister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was not immediately clear if Awad\u2019s capture led to intelligence that allowed for the detention of the wife. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of al-Baghdadi\u2019s wives is an Iraqi known by the name of Nour, the daughter of one of his aides, Abu Abdullah al-Zubaie. She was identified by name by al-Baghdadi\u2019s brother-in-law in a recent interview with al-Arabiya TV. The brother-in-law, Mohamad Ali Sajit, who is in Iraqi custody, said al-Baghdadi had four wives when he last met him, sometime last summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, one of al-Baghdadi\u2019s ex-wives was arrested in Lebanon in 2014, and was freed a year later in a prisoner swap with al-Qaida. The Iraqi ex-wife, Saja al-Dulaimi, had fled from al-Baghdadi in 2009 while pregnant with his daughter. At one point, al-Baghdadi was also believed to have married to a German teenager in 2015 but she was reported to have fled a year later. <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2019\/10\/30\/centcom-commander-releases-video-of-raid-on-baghdadi-compound-which-now-looks-like-a-parking-lot-with-large-potholes\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19303795379494.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">CENTCOM commander releases video of raid on Baghdadi compound, which now looks like a \u2018parking lot with large potholes&#8217;<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The compound \u2014 located about four miles from the Turkish border near Syria\u2019s Idlib province \u2014 now \u201clooks pretty much like a parking lot with large potholes.&quot;<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The raid that killed al-Baghdadi was a major blow to his extremist group, which has lost territories it held in Syria and Iraq in a series of military defeats by the U.S-led coalition and Syrian and Iraqi allies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Al-Baghdadi\u2019s aide, a Saudi, was killed hours after the raid, also in northwestern Syria, in a U.S. strike. The group named a successor to al-Baghdadi days later, but little is known about him or how the group\u2019s structure has been affected by the successive blows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up and until his death, al-Baghdadi had moved from place to place in eastern Syria amid a tightening U.S.-led campaign against his group as IS-held territory fell bit by bit. He ended up in Idlib, in northwestern Syria, an area controlled by a rival, al-Qaida-linked militant group. It was not clear if any of his wives were with him at the time of the raid, during which two of his children were killed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In its first video release after the killing of al-Baghdadi, IS media listed a series of its operations against Iranian-backed militias in northern Baghdad in Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 18-minute video recorded operations against soldiers and officers of Iraqi militias and police, including shootings at close range and beheadings. A masked man holding a head of a policeman and waving a knife said: \u201cThis is the fate of every apostate.\u201d A speaker also said addressing the IS leader, without naming him: \u201cRest assured sheikh, you have soldiers in north Baghdad.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the declaration of the new leader, the IS arm has been posting pledges of allegiance from affiliates of the extremist group, offering support for the successor of al-Baghdadi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writer Sarah El Deeb in Beirut contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 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