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Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi possibly injured in military raid-sources

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04-07-2014 | 07:19

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Media outlets quoted the Iraqi anti-terrorism bureau as saying on Friday that it obtained information stating that the head of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi may have been injured during a raid carried out by Iraqi regime troops in the region of al-Qaem, in Iraq's Anbar province.

The sources also noted that the raid was carried out on Thursday-Friday overnight, wounding and killing several leaders in the Islamic State.

Iraq is grappling with an onslaught of Sunni Muslim militants from the Islamic State or ISIL, an al Qaeda offshoot, who have seized large areas of northern and western Iraq and are threatening to march on the capital Baghdad.

Militants were able to seize so much territory in part because forces under Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki deserted their positions in the face of the militant advance last month.

The group is led by an ambitious Iraqi militant known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who this week declared the establishment of an Islamic state, or caliphate, in the lands it has seized in Syria and Iraq.

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