BBC: Iraqi air force 'kills 77' in strikes aimed at IS leader Baghdadi
The Iraqi air force has killed 13 commanders of so-called Islamic State in a strike on a building in Qaim where leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be, a statement said.
Baghdadi's name was not on a list of the dead published by the military.
At least 64 lower-ranked IS fighters were killed in a wave of strikes in western Iraq, the statement added.
The military said Baghdadi moved last week in a convoy from Raqqa, in Syria, to the region of Qaim, over the border.
The IS leader was supposedly meeting other senior commanders to discuss a possible successor, as well as the group's military situation in its Iraqi stronghold, Mosul.
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