High degree of certainty Daesh leader Baghdadi is dead: Russian FM

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MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday there was high degree of certainty that Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead, RIA news agency reported.

Moscow said last week its forces may have killed the secretive Daesh leader, but Washington said it could not corroborate the death and Western and Iraqi officials were sceptical.