Baby-faced son of Islamic State leader Baghdadi is killed in Syria, militants announce
Hudhayfah al-Badri is said to have died in an attack on a power station in Homs
Hudhayfah al-Badri, son of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during an attack by the jihadists in the central Syrian province of Homs, the IS propaganda agency Amaq announced Tuesday.
Al-Badri was killed in an “operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs,” the group said in a statement alongside a photo of a baby-faced fighter holding an assault rifle.
IS declared a cross-border “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq in 2014, seizing a third of Iraq during a sweeping offensive.
The jihadists have since lost much ground to separate counteroffensives by Syrian and Iraqi forces as well as US-led operations, and the jihadist presence is now confined to a few holdouts.
The Islamic State group is estimated to control no more than three per cent of Syria’s territory.