The terrorist leader has been reported killed or seriously injured several times in recent years, but he seems to be in good health.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Monday released a new propaganda video for the first time in five years — revealing that despite the terrorist organization’s loss of its so-called caliphate in Iraq and Syria, its self-proclaimed leader is still alive and well.
In an 18-minute video posted online by ISIS’s al-Furqan Media, al-Baghdadi praises the perpetrators of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, discusses the recent battle of Baghouz in Syria in which ISIS lost its final territorial holdout, and vows to continue the fight, declaring “the battle of Islam and its people with the Crusader and his people is a long battle.”
Dressed in a grey thobe (a long, robe-like garment commonly worn by men in many parts of the Middle East) with a khaki military-style vest over it and sporting a gray beard half-dyed with orange henna, al-Baghdadi, 47, appears to be in good health.
