Russia’s Defense Ministry says it is investigating reports that ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a Russian airstrike in Syria last month.
The statement from the Russians claimed the 28 May strike killed around 30 mid-level Isis leaders and another 300 fighters, during a meeting of Isis’s “military council” on the southern outskirts of Raqqa. The jihadi group’s de-facto capital is surrounded to the north, east and west by advancing Syrian rebel and Kurdish forces backed by the US-led coalition, Russian state media TASS reports.
“According to information, which is being verified via different channels, the meeting was also attended by the (ISIS) leader Ibrahim Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was eliminated in the strike,” the ministry said, according to the TASS report in English.
They were discussing their exit from the city through the so-called southern corridor, the ministry said, according to TASS.
There have been multiple reports of al-Baghdadi’s death, but this one coming from the highest level of the Russian military will not be dismissed easily.
This is breaking news and we will provide more information as we get it.
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