U.S. Targets Islamic State's Baghdadi as Special Forces Gear Up
- Extremist group has gone into hiding, U.S. official says
- Additional special-operations forces being added to fight
Islamic State Threats: Charlie Rose
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The U.S. is undertaking a significant effort to find and kill Islamic State’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who has gone into hiding, an Obama administration official said.
At the current pace, the U.S.-led coalition is finding and killing a mid- to high-level Islamic State leader every two days, said the official, who spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity to detail efforts by the U.S. coalition to counter Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.