Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead?

Name: Is Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead?
Uploaded: 2017-06-16T21:30:00+00:00
Duration: 2 min 22 s
Description: Russia said Friday it was verifying whether it had killed the leader of the Islamic State group in an airstrike targeting a meeting of IS leaders just outside the group's de facto capital in Syria, dealing a potentially severe blow to the extremist group as it fights to hang on to its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

Russia said Friday it was verifying whether it had killed the leader of the Islamic State group in an airstrike targeting a meeting of IS leaders just outside the group's de facto capital in Syria, dealing a potentially severe blow to the extremist group as it fights to hang on to its strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

Posted June 16, 2017 5:47pm EDT