Al-Baghdadi certainly injured, says Syrian envoy to Russia

Amid the media reports which emerged last week and claimed that Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a US airstrike, Damascus's envoy to Moscow on Friday said, "I definitely know that he was wounded".

Ambassador Riyad Haddad told Sputnik magazine that there was no clear information on his killing. However, he asserted that in near future not only Baghdadi, but also other Islamic State members will be killed.

The ambassador added, a meeting of Syrian and Russian defence ministers was currently being planned. "Indeed, one minister should visit the other, the place and the date are not known yet, but we have such plans," he informed.

 

Earlier this year, various reports emerged about Baghdadi's injuries and death. In April, US Department of Defence announced that Baghdadi was alive, and was travelling between Syria and Iraq.