Daesh leader wounded in Iraq: Sources

Iraqi sources say the leader of the Daesh terrorist group, Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been wounded in an airstrike in Iraq.

Iraqi Al Sumaria TV cited local sources in Iraq’s Nineveh Province as saying that Baghdadi and other Takfiri leaders were wounded in an airstrike on one of the terrorist group’s headquarters in an area 65 kilometers west of Nineveh, close to the Syrian border, on Thursday .

The Iraqi TV channel said al-Baghdadi, who was believed to be in the Daesh stronghold of Raqqah in Syria, was wounded by the explosion of a bomb released from a US-led coalition aircraft.

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