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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was reportedly hit when the US-led coalition blitzed the town of Al-Ba'aj, in northern Iraq.

The incident, which hasn't been officially verified, would be a huge blow for the terror group which only just launched a slaughter offensive to reclaim territory.

The terror nuts vowed to respond with bloody force after new US President Donald Trump promised to smash ISIS within 30 days of taking office, which he did on Friday.

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Just last month, the US government increased its massive bounty on al-Baghdadi's head by $15 million.

Anyone with information that leads to the capture of him – dead or alive – is in line for a whopping $25 million reward.

But the battle for al-Baghdadi has been a long and difficult one, with the slippery ISIS snake managing to evade capture multiple times.

Ultra paranoid al-Baghdadi is said to be so worried about someone close to him selling him out, that he wears a suicide vest to bed.

And he is so hellbent on shedding as much blood as he can, he ordered western jihadis fighting in Syria and Iraq to prove their loyalty to the cause by strapping on a suicide vest and exploding it in a busy crowd.

But hopes that al-Baghdadi has been wiped off the face of the Earth are nothing new.

In fact, security forces have thought they have killed him a number of times, only for the twisted Islamist to prove he's still alive and kicking by appearing in ISIS propaganda vids.