ISIS Leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘Killed In Massive Airstrike’
The leader of the self-proclaimed Islamic State has been killed in an air strike in Syria, according Syrian state media. News reports from Syria say the leader of ISIS Abu Bkr al-Baghdadi was killed in an air strike on Saturday.
Heavy artillery has been dropped across the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa city today, with footage posted online by pro-ISIS news agency Amaq showing damage caused on the city and its surroundings.
unilads reports:
Claims from the unverified reports in Syrian state media say that he was killed on Saturday.
Heavy air strikes were carried out across the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa throughout Saturday.
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أبوبكر البغدادي— ماجد الكبودي (@zxcvb12345460) June 10, 2017
التلفزيون السوري يؤكد مقتل الارهابي أبو بكر البغدادي في غارة جوية في الرقة السورية
— Khalid Razak (@khalidaltaie13) June 11, 2017
After the spread of hate-filled sermons that have reportedly inspired suicide attack across Europe, Abu Bkr al-Baghdadi has a £20 million bounty on his head.
Recent evidence unearthed for a documentary shows how Abu Bkr al-Baghdadi escaped capture in Iraq in 2013 before sending an army of jihadis to different parts of the world.