Leader of the Islamic State (IS) jihadist group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, adressing Muslim worshippers at a mosque in the militant-held northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Iraq claimed on October 11, 2015 to have struck a convoy carrying Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air raid near the Syrian border but said his fate was unknown. (FILES) An image grab taken from a propaganda video released on July 5, 2014 by al-Furqan Media. AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA == RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA " - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS FROM ALTERNATIVE SOURCES, AFP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DIGITAL ALTERATIONS TO THE PICTURE'S EDITORIAL CONTENT, DATE AND LOCATION WHICH CANNOT BE INDEPENDENTLY VERIFIED ==-/AFP/Getty Images
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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.’