RAQQA: Syrian state TV has claimed that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in an airstrike.

However; no confirmation has been made by ISIS’s official media wing Amaq. According to TV reports, Baghdadi has been killed in the Raqqa state. But it is not the first time that news of his death has been reported.

The ISIS leader, who has a $25million bounty on his head, has been falsely reported dead before. Reports of him being ‘critically injured in airstrikes in northern Iraq’ widely spread in January.

The Pentagon said in December it believed that the ISIS chief was alive, despite repeated efforts by the US-led coalition to take out the militant group leader.

‘We do think Baghdadi is alive and is still leading ISIL and we are obviously doing everything we can to track his movements,’ Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told CNN.

‘If we get the opportunity, we certainly would take advantage of any opportunity to deliver him the justice he deserves,’ he said.

‘We’re doing everything we can. This is something we’re spending a lot of time on.’