It's 'Highly Likely' ISIS's Baghdadi Is Dead, Russia Says
Last week, Moscow said it may have killed the terrorist leader. The U.S. and Iraq are skeptical.
Russia’s deputy foreign minister told state media Thursday that it is highly likely Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, was killed in a Russian airstrike near Raqqa, Syria, on May 28.
Oleg Syromolotov told Sputnik the “information is now verified through various channels.” The remarks June 16 by the Russian Defense Ministry, which said Baghdadi was among more than 300 ISIS militants, including mid-level field commanders, who were killed as a result of Russian airstrikes near Raqqa, the city that serves as the terrorist group’s de-facto capital.
