Iraqi air force says it bombed ISIS meeting, ISIS leader's convoy

Iraqi air force says it bombed ISIS meeting, ISIS leader's convoy

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On Sunday, Iraq's air force said it bombed a convoy carrying Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq's western Anbar Province, as he was en route to a meeting of ISIS commanders in Karbala.

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Iraqi air force says it bombed ISIS meeting, ISIS leader's convoy

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On Sunday, Iraq's air force said it bombed a convoy carrying Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq's western Anbar Province, as he was en route to a meeting of ISIS commanders in Karbala. "The location of the meeting was also bombed and many of the group's leaders were killed and wounded," Iraq's military said in a statement. "The fate of murderer al-Baghdadi is unknown and he was carried away by a vehicle. His health condition is still unclear."
Several Arab news reports claim the 44-year-old self-proclaimed "caliph" was killed but Reuters, citing local citizens and hospital officials, says he wasn't among the eight senior ISIS leaders who died in the Iraqi attack. The U.S. military was noncommittal, saying it had no indication that al-Baghdadi was killed. ISIS supporters said on Twitter and to Reuters that ISIS would live on regardless of its leader's fate. Peter Weber

 

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Turkey says ISIS the primary suspect in Saturday's deadly suicide bombings

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The death toll from a twin suicide attack near Ankara's main train station on Saturday has risen to at least 97, with another roughly 250 people wounded, and on Monday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on national TV that investigators are focusing on Islamic State as the probable perpetrator. The early afternoon attack hit a rally urging peace between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), and no group has claimed responsibility. Davutoglu said the attack was aimed at influencing Nov. 1 elections, and that the government is getting close to having some definitive answers: "DNA tests are being conducted. It was determined how the suicide bombers got there. We're close to a name, which points to one group."
Davutoglu's government also blamed ISIS for a similar suicide attack in July that killed 34 people, mostly Kurds, in the town of Suruc. ISIS hasn't claimed responsibility for that attack, either. On Saturday and Sunday, Turkish forces bombed the PKK in southern Turkey and northern Iraq, killing 49 Kurdish militant, Turkey's semiofficial Anadolu news service said. More than 2,000 PKK fighers and 150 Turkish troops have been killed since a cease-fire broke down in July, according to Anadolu.

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