Euphrates region

ISIS leader Al-Baghdadi ‘severely injured’ by Russian air strike sources say

Back in June last year the Russian Ministry of Defence published a claim that a meeting of ISIS commanders in May in the then besieged ISIS ‘capital’ of Raqqa included no less a person than ISIS’s leader – Ibrahim Abu-Bakr Al-Baghdadi – himself.
The meeting was apparently called to plan the escape of ISIS’s top leaders from Raqqa.  Of these the most important obviously is Al-Baghdadi himself, which was presumably why he attended the meeting.