Warplanes Hit Convoy Near Mosul in Attempt To kill ISIS Leaders

ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

CNN has reported that a spokes person for the U.S. Central Command has confirmed that warplanes  attacked a convoy near Mosul in Iraq during the weekend in an attempt to kill ISIS leaders. Though it not be confirmed if top ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was in the convoy.Read more:

Col. Patrick Ryder, in a statement Saturday, said he could not confirm that top ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was in the convoy.

Ryder issued that information in response to news reports indicating the ISIS leader may have died or been injured.

“I can confirm that coalition aircraft did conduct a series of airstrikes yesterday evening in Iraq against what was assessed to be a gathering of ISIL leaders near Mosul, destroying a vehicle convoy consisting of 10 ISIL armed trucks,” Ryder said, using another acronym for ISIS.

Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, is crucial to ISIS. Besides having material resources, such as Iraq’s largest hydroelectric dam, Mosul is the site of one of ISIS’s greatest battlefield victories

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