The media called the possible whereabouts of the leader of the IG
The leader of banned terrorist organization “Islamic state” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and is currently in the province of Deir ez-Zor in Syria. It is reported by the Arab newspaper Al-Quds Al-Arabi, citing unnamed sources.
Al-Baghdadi “continues to play a key role” in the leadership of the IG, despite the fact that “to communicate and hold meetings with other members of the organization is difficult,” said the sources.
About the possible elimination of the leader of ISIS told President Vladimir Putin, defense Minister of Russia Sergey Shoigu in the middle of June. The press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that during the strike the Russian VKS object of extremist groups at Raqqa killed more than a hundred people. Among them, presumably, was the leader of the “Islamic state”, said Peskov.
Later, the commander of the unit “Quds” Islamic revolutionary guard Corps of Iran, Ali Shirazi, in a conversation with one of the Iranian media confirmed the death of al-Baghdadi in a Russian air strike.
Last week the Minister of defence of the USA James Mattis suggested that the leader of the group still alive. “Until then, until we have evidence, we will not speculate on the fact that he died,” he said.