” Al-Baghdad may still be alive”

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been hiding in a remote border zone between Iraq and Syria, says General Stephen Toensend, commander of the anti-coon coalition. - ISIS led by Americans. He may have escaped at the time when the main bookies of I The SIS came under air strikes in both countries, where the jihadist group had taken root.

In fact, Baghdad's location is not known for some time now.

In June, Russia said that “has many possibilities”, that Baghdad was killed during May in a Russian forces air strike in Raqa, capital “de facto” of the jihadist group in northern Syria until recently. Since then, local groups fighting jihadist militants have escalated attacks from land to city, where some 2,000 militants are estimated to have been hiding.

Even though there have been some reports in the past on Baghdad's death on Thursday, General Tonsen said that “ka data from secret service channels that he is still alive”.

“We are looking for him every day and I believe he has not died”, General told reporters, repeating that there is still no possible indication of where the leader of I could be hiding SIS.

“SIS must be the middle valley of the Euphrates River”, he added. When we find him, I think we're just gonna try and kill him first. It's not worth all the effort to capture him.

Baghdad is believed to have been in Mosul, Iraq, before the US-led coalition launched efforts to retake the city in October 2016. He's had only one public appearance in the four-year-olds, in the video where he delivered sermons in Mosul on July 5, 2014, just after I SIS took control of the city. The last audio message given by him was November 2nd of last year.