Counter-terror chief: ISIS leader Baghdadi in Iraqi-Syrian desert, not talking

A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official says ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to be in the desert areas, coming and going between Iraq and Syria, adding that the region definitely would have unrest “for the next few years.
The news comes about two weeks after the Iraqi air force targeted a convoy of ISIS militant from Syria, which it believed included Baghdadi.

“The [unnamed] intelligence agency carefully watched a motorcade of the ISIS caliphate leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi travel from Syrian territory until they reached Iraq,” the Iraqi war media office reported earlier this month.

Coalition spokesperson Col. John Dorrian, speaking to Rudaw TV, could not confirm if Baghdadi was hit in the Iraqi airstrike, but, he said, the ISIS leader’s life is in great peril. There is a $25 million reward on his head and a lot of people looking for him. “He is going to have to hide and he has no chance of being able to be successful in doing that for too much longer.”