ISIS finally admitted its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, according to media reports in Iraq. The terror group is said to have confirmed that the 45-year-old was killed in an airstrike in the Iraqi province of Nineveh. Reports claim ISIS fanatics are scrambling to find a successor to the terror chief, who announced the formation of the group’s so-called caliphate in Mosul in 2014. The claims were made by a source, speaking to Iraq’s Al Sumaria News, who said a ban on jihadist talking about the leader’s death had now been lifted. Earlier this month, an ISIS preacher and leader was executed by the militants after he accidentally suggested that al-Baghdadi had died. Senior ISIS leader and preacher, Abu Qutaiba, was burned to death in the group’s stronghold town of Tal Afar, Alsumaria News reported. The latest unconfirmed reports come after Russia declared there was a ‘high degree of certainty’ al-Baghdadi had been killed in one of its airstrikes.
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