The pro-government Sana TV and al-Ekhbariya cited what they called news outlets affiliated with the IS as saying that al-Baghdadi was killed, without elaboration.
Meanwhile, other reports said the terror group's leader was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Syria.
On June 10, the Iraqi Al Sumariya TV cited local sources in Iraq's Nineveh province that al-Baghdadi along with other commanders of the IS was wounded overnight, when air raids targeted their hiding places near the Syrian borders.
The U.S.-led anti-terror coalition reportedly said then that it couldn't confirm the reports, apparently waiting for a stronger concrete evidence. But the coalition didn't deny carrying airstrikes at that given time and place.
Al-Baghdadi has declared himself the Caliph of all Muslims in the world, a move deemed as absurd by the majority of moderate Muslims.
His terror group has taken hold in several areas in Iraq and Syria.
Recently the U.S. coalition and its allied rebels on ground, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), unleashed a wide-scale offensive against the IS de facto capital of al-Raqqa and other key strongholds of that terror group in Syria with the aim of weakening the group.
The SDF made notable advance near al-Raqqa and the city of Manbej on the Syrian-Turkish borders.
[Xinhua -china.org.cn]
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- ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ‘killed by US air strike in Raqqa’...
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has reportedly been killed in a US air strike in Raqqa.
His death, reported by the AlhlulBayt news agency, comes days after 49 people were killed in an Orlando nightclub by a man pledging allegiance to ISIS.
The Abna24 website said al-Baghdadi had been killed on Sunday morning by an air strike in Syria.
“Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by coalition air strikes on Raqqa on the fifth day of Ramadan,” the statement said.
But US officials would not confirm the statement and there have been many earlier false claims of his death.
Conflicting reports have surrounded the location of his death, with some saying he died in Raqqa while others claim it was in Mosul, Iraq.
Both locations are ISIS strongholds.
A statement from Iraqi security forces said: “Iraqi aircraft hit Baghdadi’s convoy as it was moving towards Karabia to attend a meeting of the Daesh terrorist leaders.”
Army Colonel Chris Garver, the public affairs chief of the US-led coalition against ISIS, told USA Today he had heard international media were sharing the report, but he could not confirm that it was true.
Others wrote similar messages on social media warning people not to believe al-Baghdadi was dead....news.com.au
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