Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi the leader of ISIS has reportedly been killed in air strike. Usually, when news this good first comes out, it’s usually too good to believe and it turns out to be an error or lie. AFP reporting Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly been hit in an air raid near the Syrian border. But his condition is unknown.
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Iraq claimed Sunday to have struck a convoy carrying Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border but said his fate was unknown.
And Syria’s opposition National Coalition said it will boycott UN-proposed peace talks, citing the Russian air strikes among a list of grievances.
Iraqi aircraft hit Baghdadi’s convoy as it was “moving towards Karabla to attend a meeting of the Daesh (IS) terrorist leaders,” an Iraqi security statement said.
Karabla is on the Euphrates barely five kilometres (three miles) from the Syrian border in western Anbar, a vast Iraqi province which has long been a Sunni insurgent stronghold.
We’ll see if this turns out to be true. Usually when news as good as this first hits the Internet, it’s usually too good to be true.