WASHINGTON: Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Friday that he believes Daesh chief Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi is still alive, following various claims he was dead.
“I think Baghdadi’s alive... and I’ll believe otherwise when we know we’ve killed him,” Mattis told Pentagon reporters. “We are going after him but we assume he is alive.”
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a longtime conflict monitor, last week said it had heard from senior Daesh leaders in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province that Baghdadi was dead.
Pentagon chief says he thinks Daesh leader Baghdadi is alive
Updated 21 July 2017
Pentagon chief says he thinks Daesh leader Baghdadi is alive
