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ISIS has finally admitted its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead, according to media reports in Iraq.
The terror group is said to have confirmed that the 45-year-old was killed in an air strike in the Iraqi province of Nineveh.
Reports claim ISIS fanatics are scrambling to find a successor to the terror chief, who announced the formation of the group's so-called caliphate in Mosul in 2014.
The claims were made by a source, speaking to Iraq's Al Sumaria News, who said a ban on jihadis talking about the leader's death had now been lifted.
Earlier this month, an ISIS preacher and leader was executed by the militants after he accidentally suggested that al-Baghdadi had died.
Senior ISIS leader and preacher, Abu Qutaiba was burned to death in the group's stronghold town of Tal Afar, Alsumaria News reported.
The latest unconfirmed reports come after Russia declared there was a 'high degree of certainty' al-Baghdadi had been killed in one of its airstrikes.
However, Washington said at the time that it could not corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials were sceptical.
Al-Baghdadi's last appearance was in a video clip showing him making the sermon proclaiming the establishment of an Islamist 'caliphate' in Mosul's Grand Nuri Mosque in June 2014.
Al-Baghdadi, a hate preacher who has a $25million bounty on his head, was believed to have been hiding out in the desert outside the besieged city of Mosul in northern Iraq.
In January it was reported the leader had been 'critically injured in airstrikes in northern Iraq.'
The Pentagon said in December it believed that the ISIS chief was alive, despite repeated efforts by the US-led coalition to take out the jihadist group leader.
According to an official Iraqi government document, al-Baghdadi was born in Samarra in Iraq in 1971.
He apparently joined the insurgency that erupted after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and spent time in an American military prison.
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Katanya kena airstrike dari Rusia
Jadi inget ada petinggi dari AQIM yg kena airstrike berkali kali dari AU Perancis, dikonfirm KIA tapi kenyataanya masih hidup