Monitoring reportSunday, July 06, 2014
BAGHDAD: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the militant outfit Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), is said to have been severely injured in a raid forcing him to flee to neighbouring Syria, International Business Times reported on Saturday night.
According to a report in the Iraqi news network Al Sumaria, the insurgent leader was injured during a raid led by Iraqi security forces in the west of Anbar. “The Iraqi security forces carried out an operation in the city of Qaim on the border with Syria based on accurate intelligence and with the help of the air force where the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was seriously injured,” said Haidar al-Shara, a representative of the international parliament in Iraq. However, the report has so far not been independently verified. The Iraqi official said: “After being hit, al-Baghdadi, with a range of elements of his organisation fled into Syrian territory because of its proximity to Qaim,” adding: “al-Baghdadi might be killed as a result of the severity of his injuries.”
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