Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Agence France-Presse)
Beijing:
The United States cannot yet confirm whether the Islamic State commander, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed or wounded in Iraq following an air strike near the city of Falluja, a White House spokesman said today.
Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes was speaking on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in Beijing.
There have been contradictory accounts out of Iraq following US air strikes on Friday night about whether Baghdadi was wounded.
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