Al-Baghdadi's Wife Reveals ISIS' Secrets

Wife of the late leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi proved forthcoming with information about the inner workings of the extremist group after her capture last year, said a Turkish official.

Baghdadi’s wife identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was, in fact, Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi.

She was arrested on June 2, 2018, in the province of Hatay, near the Syrian border, along with 10 others, along with Baghdadi’s daughter, Leila Jabeer.

Family ties to Al-Baghdadi were confirmed following a DNA sample of Baghdadi provided by Iraqi authorities.

“We discovered (the wife’s) real identity pretty quickly. At that point she volunteered a lot of information about Baghdadi and the inner workings of ISIS,” the official said.

“We were able to confirm a lot of things that we already knew. We also obtained new information that led to a series of arrests elsewhere.”

Turkey President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed to the world, on Wednesday, that she had been in the custody of the Turkish Government.

“We caught his wife — I say this today for the first time — but we didn’t make a big fuss about it,” Erdogan told a gathering of students in Ankara.

He confirmed that Turkey had also captured Baghdadi’s sister and brother-in-law.

Erdogan, in his address, made allusions to America's grandstanding regarding Baghdadi's capture by American special forces. He said, “They started a very big communication operation.”

Baghdadi was put down in a raid carried out by the U.S. special forces, in collaboration with Kurdish fighters in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib.

According to the US, Baghdadi ran into a dead-end tunnel in his hideout and set-off a suicide vest, killing both himself and two children.