Russia believes airstrikes may have taken down the Islamic State leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, when striking a meeting of Islamic State leaders on May 28th. Now two weeks later, this news has officially been released with no explanation to the delay thus far. The reasoning behind the uncertainty is if Mr. Baghdadi, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, was actually in attendance to this meeting. Russian intelligence is still working to investigate if the airstrikes did indeed take down the leader; yet, they've cautioned that the Islamic State could still survive - “Examples of such actions to destroy or ‘behead’ a terrorist group have always been presented with great enthusiasm...However, history shows that the fighting capacity of these structures was restored.”
Islamic State Leader Possibly Taken Down