The Karkh Criminal Court sentenced the terrorist's wife to death for joining the IS group and detaining kidnapped Yazidi women in her home in the city of Sinjar, west of Mosul, the provincial capital of Nineveh, according to a statement from the media office. According to Xinhua News Agency report, the Supreme Judicial Council.

In 2019, US forces conducted a raid targeting al-Baghdadi in Syria's northern province of Idlib, killing the IS leader.

Al-Baghdadi, whose real name is Ibrahim Awad al-Badri, founded IS in 2014. The extremist militant group, which once controlled large swaths of land in western and northern Iraq, was defeated in late 2017.