Graphic photos and videos show widespread wreckage in the same region of Syria where the Islamic State's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US raid.

President Donald Trump provided vivid detail of the mission on Sunday, saying the terrorist leader was "whimpering and crying and screaming" before he died by detonating an explosive vest in a dead-end tunnel with three young children.

The compound where al-Baghdadi was targeted appeared to be destroyed, with videos and photos starting to surface online showing what activists and media on the ground say are piles of rubble and other widespread damage from the raid.

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Graphic photos and videos show widespread wreckage in the same region of Syria where the Islamic State's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a US raid.

President Donald Trump, speaking in a press conference on Sunday, painted a vivid picture of the mission that he said left the extremist leader "whimpering and crying and screaming" before he died by detonating an explosive vest in a dead-end tunnel with three young children.

Several US forces targeted the leader's compound, which is situated in the northwestern Syrian village of Barisha near the border with Turkey, from the air, sending off a flurry of blasts overnight Saturday.