About a month ago I reported that the leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, had been seriously wounded….I kept my ears open in Middle East news and found confirmation….he has been serious wounded with severe spinal trauma……because of that a second in command had taken over the day to day running of ISIS……

Today it is being reported by the Iraqi Defense Ministry that the man named to take al-Baghdadi’s place as leader ….one al-Afri has been killed in an airstrike…….

Second-in-command of Daesh (ISIS), Abu Alaa al-Afri, was killed in an airstrike by the US-led coalition, the Iraq Ministry of Defense said Wednesday.

Afri, a former physics teacher in Iraq, was in charge of the extremist group after leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was allegedly seriously injured in March, leaving in question the state of Daesh’s senior leadership.

A video posted on the defense ministry’s website showed a US-led coalition airstrike that pounded the compound of where Afri was allegedly meeting other Daesh leaders, including the supreme judge, International Business Times reported.

Afri was based in the city of Mosul who had “begun to head up Daesh with the help of officials responsible for other portfolios,” Iraqi government adviser Hisham al-Hashimi told Newsweek.

The airstrikes seem to be decimating the leadership of ISIS…..maybe our intel is getting better…..

So far this has not been confirmed outside the Defense Ministry….but I shall continue to check for that confirmation…….