ISIS has recently been mostly put out of Mosul, which means their power base is moving back towards Syria. And now some news that may or may not be verifiable.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. The report came just days after the Iraqi army recaptured the last sectors of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which Baghdadi's forces overran almost exactly three years ago.
How many times has Al Baghdadi been reported dead?
Let's add one more.
If he is now dead, what is the likelihood that it was an air strike, or a drone strike, that did for him?
I'd say low. I suspect if he'd been targeted/taken out by an air attack, the air force would not be able to shut up about it.