Sergey Naryshkin

Russia retreats on claims of Al-Baghdadi’s death

A report by the Russian Interfax news agency dated 1st August 2017 timed 11:37 suggests that the Russians also are now starting to doubt that Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, ISIS’s self-proclaimed “Caliph”, was really killed in a Russian air strike on Raqqa as was previously claimed.
The report reads as follows

11:37
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service chief Naryshkin doesn’t confirm al-Baghdadi’s death