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Russia Says It's Not '100 Percent' Sure Its Airstrike Killed ISIS Leader Al-Baghdadi

"So far, I have no 100 percent confirmation of this information," Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, after defense officials said they believe a strike might have killed the ISIS leader.

The Russian Defense Ministry says it may have killed ISIS leader Ibrahim Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an airstrike on an ISIS meeting in Raqqa, Syria. The development has not

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