INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Cairo: A son of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the city of Homs in Syria, the group's news channel reported on
Tuesday."Hudayfah al-Badri the son of the Caliph was killed in an operation against the Nusayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power
station in Homs," the statement said
The word Nusayriyyah refers to Syria's Alawite community.The statement showed an image of a young boy carrying an assault rifle and gave no
further details.Baghdadi's whereabouts remain unknown, but the wording of Tuesday's statement seemed to imply he is still alive.The
secretive ISIS leader has frequently been reported killed or wounded since he declared a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from a mosque in
Mosul in 2014, after leading his fighters on a sweep through northern Iraq.Baghdadi's last message came in the form of an undated 46-minute
audio recording, released via the Al-Furqan news organization in September, where he urged followers across the world to wage attacks
against the West and to keep fighting in Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.© Thomson Reuters 2018
