ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been reportedly killed in an air strike.
Syrian state television says the world’s most wanted terrorist was reportedly blasted with heavy artillery while in the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa.
This is as US-backed Syrian fighters seized a second district of Raqa on Sunday and launched a renewed assault on a base north of the city.
The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) broke into Raqa last week after announcing the start of a final assault on the IS-held city.
On Sunday, the Arab-Kurdish alliance said its fighters had “liberated the neighbourhood of Al-Romaniya on the western front of Raqa, after two days of continued clashes”.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said they had also seized almost half the adjacent district of Al-Senaa from the jihadists.
“If they’re able to take the whole neighbourhood, it would be their most important advance to date because it would put them at the gates of the Old City,” Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman said.
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