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Source: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-06-29/khameneis-representative-says-islamic-states-baghdadi-definitely-dead-irna

Iran Confirms ISIS Chief Baghdadi Is Dead

(Reuters) Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was "definitely dead," Iran's state news agency IRNA quoted cleric Ali Shirazi, representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force, as saying. Russia said on June 17 its forces might have killed Baghdadi in an air strike in Syria.

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