The remains of the al-Nuri Mosque, from where Baghdadi gave the sermons, are now with the Iraqi government. It’s telling the world, especially the group’s supporters and sympathisers, that ‘Caliph’ Baghdadi has survived the fall of the Caliphate. Also Read IS chief Baghdadi appears in propaganda video for first time in five yearsSecond, Baghdadi has referred to the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka in the video. The Sri Lanka reference suggests that the video is not more than a week old. The April 21 Sri Lanka attacks, which killed more than 250 people, were one of the most dangerous suicide missions the IS has ever carried out.

Source: The Hindu April 30, 2019 06:11 UTC