These Russian satellite images purport to show the obliterated command post where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a targeted airstrike near Raqqa last month.

Russia's Defence Ministry said the world's most wanted terrorist was killed in a Russian air strike on May 28 along with other senior group commanders.

It said the air raid that targeted an ISIS meeting on the southern outskirts of Raqqa also killed about 30 mid-level militant leaders and about 300 other fighters.

The ministry said the strike came as ISIS leaders gathered to discuss the group's withdrawal from Raqqa, their de facto capital.

The picture shows the photos of the same location taken on May 13 and May 29, the day after the reported airstrike.

This photo shared by the Russian Defense Ministry claims to show the site where ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed. The aerial image (left) of the ISIS headquarters is seen on May 13, 2017, and an aerial image taken on May 29 (right), shows the same site following the Russian airstrike on May 28 on the outskirts of Raqqa

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, pictured, has reportedly been killed in an airstrike in Raqqa, Syria

In a statement, the army said Sukhoi warplanes carried out a 10-minute night-time strike early on May 28 at a location near Raqqa, where ISIS leaders had gathered to plan a pullout by militants from the group's stronghold.

It said: 'Senior commanders of the military groups of the so-called IS military council, 30 mid-ranking field commanders and up to 300 militants who provided security for them were eliminated.

'According to information which is being checked through various channels, the leader of ISIL Ibrahim Abu-Bakr al-Baghdadi was also present at the meeting and was eliminated by the strike.' The US has been informed about the attack, the statement added.

Russia launched a bombing campaign in Syria in September 2015 in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its efforts against ISIS jihadists are separate from the US-led coalition which supports the Syrian rebels.

The US-led coalition said there was no way to confirm Russia's claim it had killed al-Baghdadi.

'We cannot confirm these reports at this time,' said US Army Colonel Ryan S. Dillon, spokesman for the coalition's Operation Inherent Resolve.

Al-Baghdadi, who has a £20 million bounty on his head, had been believed to be hiding out in the desert outside the besieged city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

But intelligence agencies believe he escaped from the city while it was being retaken by the Iraqi army. It is thought he then tried to get to Raqqa.

His death has been reported more than a dozen times in the past.

The latest claim was made by the Syrian government last week, which said one of its warplanes killed the terrorist on June 10.

The Russian defence ministry said on Friday Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a Russian strike in late May along with other senior group commanders

According to an official Iraqi government document, al-Baghdadi was born in Samarra in Iraq in 1971.

He is credited with transforming the breakaway al-Qaeda group turning it into the independent ISIS group that is arguably the most powerful and wealthiest jihadist organisation in the world.

His only public appearance since claiming the creation of an ISIS caliphate was in a video in June 2014, in which he was seen delivering a sermon in Mosul after the terror group took control of the city.

Since then, the group has lost considerable amounts of territory and has been under pressure from air strikes by Russian-led forces and the US and its allies.

In March the Pentagon told media outlets that al-Baghdadi was still alive despite reports that ISIS was crumbling.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later said it was a 'matter of time' before the ISIS leader was killed.