Reportedly, the ISIS leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been
killed in airstrike on Raqqa, Daesh news agency claims according to ABNA AND
Turkish Daily Yeni Şafak.
Leader of Daesh (ISIS) terrorist organization, Abu Bakr al
Baghdadi, has been killed in US-led coalition airstrikes on Raqqa, the terror
group reportedly claimed.
Arabic media wired the report of al-Baghdadi's death, citing
pro-Daesh news agency al-Amaq.
The report said that Baghdadi had been killed on Sunday
morning by the coalition air operation in Syria. The coalition operation
command has not made a statement so far.
The so-called official news agency of the terror group said
in a statement released on behalf of Daesh, that their “Caliph” al-Baghdadi had
been killed.
“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by coalition
airstrikes on Raqqa on the fifth day of Ramadan,” it said.
"We have no reason to believe that Baghdadi's not still
alive, but we have not heard from him since the end of last year," U.S.
Special Envoy Brett McGurk said Friday, referring to an audio tape that surfaced
online in December.
U.S. officials agree on two initial points. First, they
don't know exactly where he is, and if they did, they would attack his location
either from the ground or air if they could, CNN reports.
Second, Baghdadi is practicing, in the words of one
official, "extraordinary operational security" to keep his location
secret.
The possibility that Baghdadi is hiding in Raqqa has in no
way been dismissed.
However, officials say the alternative scenario -- that
Baghdadi is moving around -- is actively being considered. There was
intelligence believed to be credible over the last six months that Baghdadi
traveled to the Mosul, Iraq, area at least twice, said a U.S. official.
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