ISIS leader Baghdadi confirmed dead

ISIS leader al-Baghdadi: confirmed dead by his associates
Senior Islamic State leaders said their supremo, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, according to the  Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a longtime conflict monitor.
The monitor said today the information was confirmed by the ISIS leaders, a day after Iraq declared it had driven the jihadists from their one-time top stronghold of Mosul.
If confirmed, his death would mark another devastating blow to the jihadist group after its loss of Mosul, which Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Monday declared had been retaken from IS after a gruelling months-long campaign.
The Britain-based Observatory’s director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP that “top tier commanders from IS who are present in Deir Ezzor province have confirmed the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, emir of the Islamic State group, to the Observatory”.
“We learned of it today but we do not know when he died or how,” he said.