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Pompeo to Host Extraordinary Meeting of Anti-Daesh Coalition on 14 November

The statement followed a recent announcement by US President Donald Trump that Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been killed in a US-led raid in the Syrian Province of Idlib.
Sputnik

The US Department of State said on its official Twitter page on Tuesday that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo intends to hold a special meeting with the foreign ministers of the global Anti-Daesh Coalition on 14 November in Washington, DC. The meeting's agenda will be focused on further steps to defeat Daesh*.

Earlier on Sunday, US President Donald Trump told reporters that the leader of the Daesh* terrorist group Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been neutralised during a US-led operation in Idlib. Al-Baghdadi was allegedly chased into a tunnel and blew himself up, also taking the lives of three children.

The Global Coalition was formed in September 2014 with an official mission to combat the Daesh* terrorist group.

*Daesh (also known as ISIS/ISIL/IS) is a terrorist organisation outlawed in Russia

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