Baghdadi was under US surveillance for last few weeks:Trump

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who blew himself by trigging his suicide vest in a dead end tunnel of his hideout compound in northwest Syria, was under constant US surveillance for the last couple of weeks, President Donald Trump said on Sunday, asserting that he had asked for the ISIS leader and the world's most dreaded terrorist from day one of his presidency.

Trump said Baghdadi constantly changed his mind about his movements from his well protected compound in Syria, but, for reasons known to him, this time decided to stay for longer.

"We've had him under surveillance for a couple of weeks. We knew a little bit about where he was going, where he was heading. We had very good information that he was going to another location. He didn't go. Two or three efforts were cancelled because he decided to change his mind," Trump told reporters at the White House after he announced that Baghdadi was dead.

"Finally, we saw that he was here. Held up here. We knew something about the compound. We knew ..