Eight senior ISIS figures killed in Iraqi air strike – not Baghdadi

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi does not appear to have been among the eight senior figures killed in Iraqi air strikes on  their meeting at Karbala in western Iraq Sunday or the convoy heading there with Baghdadi. Iraqi officials said Baghdadi had been driven away from the convoy in an unknown condition. A US military official in Baghdad said there were no indications Baghdadi was killed or injured during the operation.

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