ISIS militants say its leader is dead — media

ISIS militants (terror group, outlawed in Russia) have said the organization’s leader Abu Bakr al-Bahgdadi is dead, the Al Sumaria TV channel reported, citing a source in Iraq’s Nineveh province.

According to the source, ISIS terrorists issued a brief statement announcing that their leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead and the name of the "new caliph."

The Russian Defense Ministry reported in the middle of June that, according to preliminary information, the ISIS leader had been killed by a Russian airstrike in Syria in late May.