Kurdish Security Official Insists ISIS Leader Is 'Definitely Alive'
July 17 2017
A top Kurdish counterterrorism official in Iraq says that the leader of the Islamic State is still alive despite several reports that he was killed in June in Syria, reports Reuters.
The Kremlin said in mid-June that it was investigating reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a Russian airstrike in Syria in May.
Baghdadi "is definitely alive. He is not dead. We have information that he is alive. We believe 99 percent he is alive," Lahur Talabany told the wire...
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