ANKARA (Dispatches) – Daesh chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is still alive and in the custody of U.S. forces at a base in Hasaka province, a Turkish media outlet claimed on Sunday.
A Syrian source told the Turkish-language Yeni ?afak daily that al-Baghdadi was captured in Iraq by the U.S. and brought to Syria’s al-Karamah region. The source, who was previously a militant part of Jund al-Aqsa, told the daily that al-Baghdadi was first taken to the U.S. base in Ra'as al-Ein and then to a U.S. base in al-Hasaka-Rmeilan.