Fugitive ISIS leader al-Baghdadi’s desert mansion complete with a swimming pool and a ZOO is seized by Iraqi forces
The ISIS chief is said to be hiding out in Fallujah, Iraq
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is on the run and has had to leave behind his desert mansion complete with its own swimming pool and zoo.
Iraqi fighter Serdar Mahmud uploaded a photo of himself to Twitter posing on the roof of the sprawling mansion.
He told his followers: “”note the camels and a few horse… Al Baghdadi had a zoo.”
Since al-Baghdadi fled the compound, it has become overrun with YPG forces.
Mahmud revealed that the ISIS boss is holed up in the ISIS stronghold Mosul in Iraq.
It is believed the terror chief crossed into Iraq after being wounded in an airstrike in the group’s self-declared capital of Raqqa in Syria.
Syrian ambassador to Moscow Riad Haddad told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti about the attack last week.
There were also rumours that he had been killed but Haddad said the terror leader had only been injured.
The so-called caliph was traveling in a convoy with other senior ISIS figures when it was hit by jets.
His death would be a massive blow to ISIS.
The terrorist group are losing their grip on territory and wealth. They are currently waging a desperate last stand to hold on to the city of Fallujah in Iraq, which was once an ISIS stronghold.
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The group are also losing ground in Mosul as the Iraqi army backed by U.S.-led air strikes dent their territory.
The number of foreign fighters joining ISIS in Iraq and Syria has decreased sharply in the past year to about 200 a month from between 1,500 and 2,000.
And U.S. Air Force Major General Peter Gersten said last month that the number of fighters defecting from ISIS was increasing as well, but he did not give a specific number.
More than 25,000 IS fighters in Syria and Iraq — including Jihadi John — have been killed in just 20 months by RAF and coalition air strikes, the US military revealed in April
Baghdadi was born as Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim al-Badri, in 1971 in Samarra, Iraq, to a lower-middle class Sunni family.
His tribe claimed to be descended from the Prophet Muhammad.
As a youth Baghdadi was a meticulous observer of religious law and could recite the Koran from cover to cover.
He then rose from obscurity to lead the world's most infamous and feared terror group, reviving the organisation's fortunes as it launched its sickening offensive across Syria and Iraq.
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