Host Simon Spungin talks with award-winning freelance journalist Wilson Fache, who has just returned from Iraq and Syria, about the assassination of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Will Baghdadi's death change anything on the ground for the Kurdish minorities in Turkey, Syria and Iraq? Will Da'esh respond to its leader's death with a round of violent attacks? And what can we read into the fact that Baghdadi was killed in the Idlib Province of Syria – just a few miles from the border with Turkey?

Follow Wilson Fache on Twitter.

Host&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/writers/WRITER-1.4968283">Simon Spungin</a>&nbsp;talks with&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/wilsonfache/status/1183062161180037122?s=20">award-winning</a>&nbsp;freelance journalist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/syria/.premium-fleeing-kurds-vow-never-to-return-to-syria-1.8006881">Wilson Fache</a>, who has just returned from Iraq and Syria, about the assassination of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis">Islamic State</a>&nbsp;leader&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis-leader-al-baghdadi-killed-by-u-s-forces-unconfirmed-reports-say-1.8029638">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi</a>.
Will Baghdadi's death change anything on the ground for the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-al-baghdadi-s-death-is-a-symbolic-achievement-but-it-s-too-late-for-the-kurds-1.8030925">Kurdish minorities</a>&nbsp;in Turkey, Syria and Iraq? Will Da'esh respond to its leader's death with a round of violent attacks? And what can we read into the fact that Baghdadi was killed in the Idlib Province of Syria &ndash; just a few miles from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis/trump-expected-to-confirm-death-in-u-s-raid-of-isis-leader-al-baghdadi-1.8031470">border with Turkey</a>?
Follow&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/wilsonfache?lang=en">Wilson Fache on Twitter</a>.

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.

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From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – the Haaretz weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer. 

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – the Haaretz weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.