A respected Turkish daily newspaper – Yeni Safak – has reported that Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in a U.S. airstrike in Raqqa.
But it’s not clear whether the paper has been fooled by a fake, digitally altered image supposedly from the Islamic State news agency Amaq.
The statement said, ‘Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed by coalition air strikes on Raqqa on the fifth day of Ramadan’ – but it’s thought to be fake.
Several reports in recent days have suggested that the Isis leader has been injured in coalition attacks.
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Last week, Iraqi TV channels reported that the Islamic State leader had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the radical Islamist militants, Colonel Chris Garver, said in an email that he had seen the reports but had ‘nothing to confirm this at this time.’
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