Daesh leader al-Baghdadi ‘seriously wounded in air strike’

The enigmatic leader of the jihadist group Daesh is recovering after being seriously injured in an air strike in March, UK's Guardian quoting sources reported.

According to the report, al-Baghdadi was injured in March this year in a US-led coalition air attack on the jihadists at al-Baaj district of Nineveh, close to the Syrian border. It also says al-Baghdadi suffered near-fatal wounds initially and since made a slow recovery. However, he is yet to resume his day-to-day control of the jihadist group.

Al-Baghdadi, an ambitious Iraqi jihadist believed to be in his early 40s, has a $10 million US bounty on his head. Since taking the reins of the Islamic State in 2010, he has transformed it from a local branch of al-Qaida into an independent transnational military force, positioning himself as perhaps the pre-eminent figure in the global jihadi community.
Source: TNN