Barisha, Idlib Governorate, Syria

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Barisha, in Syria’s Idlib Governorate, is a small village internationally noted as the location where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during a 2019 U.S. special forces raid.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf village
administrativeDivisionType village
associatedWithOrganization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant NERFINISHED
associatedWithPerson Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi NERFINISHED
conflictContext Syrian civil war NERFINISHED
country Syria
countryCode SY
countrySubdivision Idlib Governorate NERFINISHED
district Harem District NERFINISHED
eventLocation U.S. military raid on Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
governorate Idlib Governorate NERFINISHED
governorateCapital Idlib NERFINISHED
hasArabicName باريشا NERFINISHED
hasDeFactoControlHistory Hayat Tahrir al-Sham influence area
Syrian opposition forces NERFINISHED
language Arabic
locatedIn Idlib District NERFINISHED
Idlib Governorate NERFINISHED
northwestern Syria NERFINISHED
locatedInHistoricalRegion Greater Syria NERFINISHED
locatedNear Syrian–Turkish border NERFINISHED
locatedOnContinent Asia
nearbyCity Harem NERFINISHED
Idlib NERFINISHED
notableFor location of the 2019 U.S. special forces raid that killed ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
partOf Syrian Arab Republic NERFINISHED
raidConductedBy United States special operations forces NERFINISHED
raidDate 2019-10-26
raidOperationName Operation Kayla Mueller NERFINISHED
region Levant NERFINISHED
religionMajority Sunni Islam NERFINISHED
subdistrict Harem Nahiyah NERFINISHED
terrain hilly
rural
timeZone Eastern European Time
timeZoneDST Eastern European Summer Time

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi placeOfDeath Barisha, Idlib Governorate, Syria