A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said Monday he was 99 percent sure that Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after speculation that Baghdadi had been killed.
Lahur Talabany also told Reuters that after its defeat Daesh would wage an insurgency and resemble al-Qaeda on "steroids".
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The future leaders of Daesh were expected to be intelligence officers who served under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the men credited with devising the group's strategy.
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