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Iraqis claim to have hit IS chief Baghdadi's convoy in air raid

Iraqi security forces claimed Sunday to have struck the convoy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike near the country's border with Syria. "The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation targeting the convoy of the criminal terrorist Abu Bakr al-

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Published 11 October 2015, 8:00 · Updated 21:25

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Iraqis claim to have hit IS chief Baghdadi's convoy in air raid

Iraqi security forces claimed Sunday to have struck the convoy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike near the country's border with Syria.

"The Iraqi air force carried out a heroic operation targeting the convoy of the criminal terrorist Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi," Iraq's security forces said in a joint statement, adding that his health status was unknown.

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