IS leaders targeted in airstrike, Baghdadi fate unclear

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The Iraqi flying corps has focused on a meeting of administrators from the Islamic State gather that its pioneer Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been going to, an announcement said on Monday.

It was not clear in the announcement sent by the Joint Operations Command planning the battle against the jihadists in Iraq whether the world's most needed fear based oppressor had been hit.

A knowledge cell observed a guard that the announcement said transported Baghdadi from the range of Raqa, the jihadists' fundamental Syrian fortification, over the outskirt to the Al-Qaim zone in western Iraq.

The announcement said Iraqi aviation based armed forces F-16 planes struck a meeting of top IS authorities on February 11 yet gave no extra data on Baghdadi's destiny.

"The immediate strike on the meeting area prompted to the demise of 13 Daesh (IS) administrators," said the announcement, which gave a rundown of names.

The Iraq-conceived Baghdadi, who broadcasted a "caliphate" straddling Iraq and Syria in June 2014, was not one of those names.


The Iraqi military has detailed Baghdadi slaughtered or injured on various events since it propelled a counter-hostile to recover the domain lost to IS just about three years prior.

Iraq's military said many other IS activists were likewise slaughtered in different strikes in an indistinguishable range from part of the operation a week ago.

Baghdadi's wellbeing is obscure, yet the Pentagon said a month and a half back that he was still alive and driving IS as it tries to protect the remainders of its disintegrating "caliphate".

In the announcement issued on Monday, the Iraqi military guaranteed that Baghdadi had gone to the outskirt range to examine with his administrators "the misfortunes occurring in Mosul".

Mosul is Iraq's second city and the biggest ever held by IS.

After a string of real misfortunes in both Iraq and Syria, the jihadists' two principle fortifications of Mosul and Raqa are both under assault from powers upheld by a US-drove coalition.

Iraqi powers have as of now retaken the eastern side of Mosul and, almost four months into an enormous hostile to recover the city, they are currently preparing for a strike on the west side.

In mid-December, the United States dramatically increased the abundance on the shadowy IS pioneer's make a beeline for $25 million.