London: ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been wounded in an air strike by coalition forces on one of the outfit's command headquarters close to the Syrian border in Iraq, media reports said today.
Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV claimed local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the terrorist group were wounded on Thursday in the coalition bombing raid.
"The planes of the international coalition yesterday bombed a location where there is a base of ISIS members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh," Express UK quoted an Iraqi source as saying.
According to reports, Baghdadi was injured along with some members of the group who were gathered at that meeting.
"The attack was carried out on the basis of precise intelligence information that led to strike its own that site," the paper quoted the source as saying.
The area is one of the group's strongholds, the source said, adding that "Baghdadi and the other ISIS leaders arrived in Iraq from Syria with a convoy of cars".
A spokesman for the US-led coalition said that he had seen the reports but had "nothing to confirm this at this time", the report said.
In recent years there have been a number of reports of Baghdadi's injury, and even death, but none have been confirmed.
Baghdadi was seriously wounded by an airstrike on March 18, 2015, that killed the three other men he was travelling with. He was said to be receiving treatment for spinal injuries after being wounded in that strike.
The injury left the terror chief incapacitated, with some claiming at the time that his injuries meant he would never again resume command.
In 2011 the US State Department named Baghdadi as a terrorist and offered up to $10 million for information leading to his capture or death.
Baghdadi became the leader of the terrorist group in 2010 but it was only in 2014 that ISIS declared the establishment of a "caliphate" - a successor of past Islamic empires - in its territory in Syria and Iraq.
Iraqi news channel Al Sumariya TV claimed local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province had confirmed that Baghdadi and other leaders in the terrorist group were wounded on Thursday in the coalition bombing raid.
"The planes of the international coalition yesterday bombed a location where there is a base of ISIS members along the border area between Iraq and Syria, 65 kilometres west of Nineveh," Express UK quoted an Iraqi source as saying.
"The attack was carried out on the basis of precise intelligence information that led to strike its own that site," the paper quoted the source as saying.
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A spokesman for the US-led coalition said that he had seen the reports but had "nothing to confirm this at this time", the report said.
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Baghdadi was seriously wounded by an airstrike on March 18, 2015, that killed the three other men he was travelling with. He was said to be receiving treatment for spinal injuries after being wounded in that strike.
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In 2011 the US State Department named Baghdadi as a terrorist and offered up to $10 million for information leading to his capture or death.
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