Islamic State: 'Unclear' if terrorist group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed in air strike, Iraq says, Eight arch abstracts from Islamic State accept been dead in an air bang in western Iraq, but the group's baton Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi did not arise to be a part of them, bounded association and hospital sources say.Iraq said on Sunday its air force had hit a affair of IS associates and had aswell addled a accompany that was accustomed Baghdadi to arise it.
It said Baghdadi had been apprenticed abroad from the accompany in an alien condition.
"Iraqi air armament accept austere the accompany of the agitator Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was branch to Karabla to arise a affair with Daesh commanders," the Iraqi aggressive said in a statement, application the Arabic chat for the group.
"The area of the affair was aswell austere and abounding of the group's leaders were dead and wounded. The fate of assassin al-Baghdadi is alien and he was agitated abroad by a vehicle. His bloom action is still unclear," the aggressive said.
Local association in Karabla, abreast the Syrian border, said eight IS leaders had been dead in an air strike, but that Baghdadi did not arise to be one of them.
A Twitter annual that publishes statements from IS said "rumours" that an air bang had targeted Baghdadi were false.
The United States aggressive beneath to animadversion on the Iraqi military's report.
An IS fighter accomplished by blast said he could not affirm whether Baghdadi had been in a accompany that was struck, but said the accumulation would action on whatever his fate.
"Even if he was martyred again it will not affect Islamic State," the fighter said.
"We will lose a baton but there are a thousand Baghdadis. Every minute a baton is built-in in the Islamic State."
Iraqi aegis sources accept appear ahead that Baghdadi had been afflicted or dead in strikes in the accomplished but the claims were either never absolute or after denied.
Interior admiral agent Saad Maan told AFP that "the bang was bygone [Saturday] at noon".He said the operation was conducted in allocation with Iraq's autogenous admiral intelligence casework and the collective operation command centre, which includes aggressive admiral from the US-led coalition.
The bloom and abode of Baghdadi, who has a $US10 actor ($13.6 million) compensation on his head, are the accountable of connected speculation.
He was appear blood-soaked assorted times over the accomplished year and his credible adaptation has alone added to the abstruseness surrounding the IS chief.
According to an official Iraqi government document, Baghdadi was built-in in Samarra in 1971 and has four accouchement with his aboriginal wife — two boys and two girls built-in amid 2000 and 2008.
But Baghdadi has alone appeared already in accessible back demography the captain of the movement, in June 2014 at a abbey in the arctic Iraqi city-limits of Mosul.
In his sermon, he asked all Muslims to obey him and accompany the caliphate.
The Iraqi aggressive annual was appear by the "war media cell", a anatomy which provides updates on the war adjoin IS and speaks for the autogenous and defence ministries as able-bodied as the paramilitary Popular Mobilisation forces.
IS has bedeviled swathes of Syria and Iraq and in June declared a caliphate over area it controls.
Baghdadi has said he had accustomed oaths of adherence from supporters in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Algeria.
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