PBS News Hour

How the success of the U.S. raid will impact the Middle East

In his announcement Sunday morning, President Trump thanked Russia, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and the Syrian Kurds for supporting the military mission that killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Vali Nasr, a former senior U.S. State Department advisor and a Middle East scholar and a professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the implications.

How the success of the U.S. raid will impact the Middle East

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