Islamic State chief ‘wounded’ in airstrike

Iraqi officials said yesterday that an airstrike wounded the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate information on such a strike or al-Baghdadi being wounded.

An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press that al-Baghdadi was hit during a meeting on Saturday with militants in the town of Qaim in Iraq’s western Anbar province.

The official, citing informants within the militant group, said the strike wounded al-Baghdadi. A senior Iraqi military official also said he learned in operational meetings that al-Baghdadi had been wounded.