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U.S., Iraqi officials can't confirm report Islamic State leader wounded
Source: Reuters
World | Fri Jun 10, 2016 10:50am EDT
U.S., Iraqi officials can't confirm report Islamic State leader wounded
U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Friday they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the radical Islamist militants, Colonel Chris Garver, said in an email that he had seen the reports but had "nothing to confirm this at this time".
Kurdish and Arab security officials in northern Iraq said they also could not confirm the report.
Al Sumariya TV cited a local source in the northern province of Nineveh saying that Baghdadi and other Islamic State leaders were wounded on Thursday in a coalition air strike on one of the group's command headquarters close to the Syrian border.
The channel has good connections with Shi'ite politicians and Iraqi forces engaged in the battle against Islamic State.
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U.S., Iraqi officials can't confirm report Islamic State leader wounded
U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Friday they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq.
A spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition fighting the radical Islamist militants, Colonel Chris Garver, said in an email that he had seen the reports but had "nothing to confirm this at this time".
Kurdish and Arab security officials in northern Iraq said they also could not confirm the report.
Al Sumariya TV cited a local source in the northern province of Nineveh saying that Baghdadi and other Islamic State leaders were wounded on Thursday in a coalition air strike on one of the group's command headquarters close to the Syrian border.
The channel has good connections with Shi'ite politicians and Iraqi forces engaged in the battle against Islamic State.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-baghdadi-idUSKCN0YW0QT