Delhi: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the dreaded terror organsiation Islamic State (ISIS) has been 'critically injured' in air strikes in northern Iraq, as per reports.
Mail Online quoted local reports as saying that the terrorist is said to have been wounded after a bombing raid in Al-Ba'aj.
Another international Daily Mirror also quoted reports as saying that the strike, by US-led coalition had taken place in northern Iraq.
However, claims of al-Baghdadi being injured has emerged before too.
As yet there is no official confirmation about it.
In December, Pentagon had said that it believed that the ISIS chief was alive.
Last month the US government had increased the bounty for al-Baghdadi from $10 million to $25 million.
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