According to the source, ISIS gunmen issued a brief statement announcing that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead and the name of the "new caliph."
Some Iranian media outlets earlier circulated images confirming al-Baghdadi’s death. The Russian Defense Ministry reported in the middle of June that, according to preliminary information, the ISIS leader and 300 gunmen had been killed by a Russian airstrike in Syria in late May.
This news issued however ISIS usually use Amaq news agency to publish confirmed news.
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11 July 2017 - 09:50
News ID: 841685
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Militants of ISIS have said the organization’s leader Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi is dead, the Al Sumaria TV channel reported on Tuesday citing a source in Iraq’s Nineveh province.
