Is A Power Struggle Now Underway In The Islamic State?

Reuters

Jamie Dettmer, Daily Beast: Has ISIS Lost Its Head? Power Struggle Erupts with Al-Baghdadi Seriously Wounded

As defectors confirm reports that al-Baghdadi is still in bad shape from a March bombing, Syrian and Iraqi factions vie for influence in the so-called Islamic State.

URFA, Turkey — Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State’s leader, has been moved from Iraq to the Syrian city of Raqqa, the terror army’s de facto capital, amid tight security two months after sustaining serious shrapnel wounds that left his spine damaged and his left leg immobile, say jihadi defectors.

He is said to be mentally alert and able to issue orders, but his physical injuries are now prompting the so-called Islamic State’s governing Shura Council to make a final decision on a temporary stand-in leader who can move back and forth between front lines in Syria and Iraq and is able to handle day-to-day leadership in the self-declared caliphate.

WNU editor: This is one of those situations where you know that something is happening .... but you have no idea on what are the details until after the fact .... which is this case will probably be known only later this year.