GETTY Unconfirmed reports are suggesting the ISIS leader has been killed

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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - who has been in hiding as coalition forces look to end ISIS’s reign of terror - was reportedly killed on Saturday, according to Syrian State TV. The death of the Islamic State kingpin would be a huge step towards wiping out the terror group, but as yet reports he has been killed remain unconfirmed. Heavy artillery was dropped on the ISIS stronghold of Raqqa on Sunday, with footage online posted by Islamic State news agency Amaq revealing the destruction.

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Baghdadi currently has a £20million bounty on his head after his hate preaching caused terror atrocities around the world. Recent terror attacks in Westminster, Manchester and London Bridge were all committed by Britons who had been brainwashed by the death cult. In April, it was reported that al-Baghdadi's second-in-command had been killed in an air strike in Iraq.

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Ayad al-Jumaili was killed with other Islamic State commanders in a strike carried out by the Iraqi air force in the region of al-Qaim, near the border with Syria, Iraqi State TV said, without giving the date of the raid. The TV described Jumaili as Islamic State's "second-in-command" and "war minister". Meanwhile, a Kurdish official claimed that ISIS used 17 suicide car bombers in an elaborate bid to help al-Baghdadi flee from Mosul.