“The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation targeting the convoy of the criminal terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi”, Iraq’s security forces said in a joint statement.
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Iraq says it has hit the convoy of the chief of Daesh in an airstrike in the western Anbar Province.
A military statement said: ‘Iraqi air forces have bombed the convoy of the terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi while he was heading to Karabla to attend a meeting with Daesh (ISIS) commanders.
Iraqi security sources have previously claimed several times that Baghdadi had been injured or killed in strikes but the claims were either never verified or later denied.
Karabla is a village located between the towns of Al Qaim and Husaybah, which are right on the border with Syria.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. In November, Iraqi officials said he had been wounded in an airstrike.
“His health status is unknown”, it said.
On numerous occasions in the past, Baghdadi has been rumored to have been killed or seriously wounded.
The reported bombing of al-Baghdadi comes as the U.S. and its allies staged 24 air strikes on ISIS in Syria and Iraq yesterday.
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Al-Baghdadi has been rarely seen in public since becoming the leader of IS.
