Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi attempting to cross Syria into Iraq

AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Russian media reports claimed on Saturday that ISIS terrorist group's ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in Syria's Badiyeh (desert) region, attempting to cross the border into Iraq.

The Arabic-language service of RT news channel quoted an Iraqi intelligence source as saying that al-Baghdadi is at present hiding in Abu Rajmin mountain near Syria's Palmyra region in Homs province.

He added that the ISIS leader wants to cross the border into Iraq in the next few weeks, noting that he has already made several unsuccessful attempts due to the tight security measures at the border.

The report said captured ISIS terrorists have leaked during interrogations that al-Baghdadi has been left with a small number of Saudi, Tunisian and Iraqi militants who are still loyal to him.

Security experts said al-Baghdadi is likely trying to join the ISIS terrorists who have been transferred by the US from Syria to Iraq.

Iraq's security experts have accused the US army of training hundreds of ISIS terrorists in al-Anbar province after relocating them from Syria to Iraq to prepare them for a new round of insecurity in the country.

"Between 700 to 1,000 ISIS militants are being trained by the US troops in al-Anbar province," the Arabic-language al-Maloumeh news website quoted Manager of Badr Organization in Al-Anbar Province Qusai al-Anbari as saying in March.

He pointed to the special conditions considered for the ISIS militants, and said that the US troops had specified redlines for third parties to avoid approaching the region.

This is while the Arabic-language Arabi Post recently disclosed that the US troops had been intensively training the ISIS terrorists in two military bases of Ain al-Assad and al-Habanieh in al-Anbar province under name of desert ghosts.

The sources said the US army troops had equipped the ISIS terrorists with 200 military and non-military vehicles.

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