Booby-traps, firefights and a daring chase: inside the US special forces raid on Baghdadi's compound

The eight American stealth helicopters, carrying Delta Force and Navy Seals, came in fast and low over the olive trees in Barisha, a village of a few thousand people in Idlib province near the Turkish border. In the darkness around midnight they were fired on from the ground but quickly obliterated the source, before soldiers rappelled to the ground near the compound housing Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world's most wanted terrorist. Watching in the Situation Room at the White House Donald Trump wa