U.S. Strike Reportedly Wounds Islamic State Leader
A provincial leader tells Bloomberg that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in the attack, and several deputies were killed.
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Iraqi officials said they were working to determine if recent U.S. airstrikes injured or killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as a Pentagon spokesman discounted that possibility.
Sabah Karhout, head of the Anbar provincial council in western Iraq, said a strike by coalition forces over the weekend near the town of al-Qaim along the Syrian border hit a house where 30 Islamic State leaders were meeting, including al-Baghdadi. Many of them were killed, he said in a telephone interview yesterday.