Iraqis say Russian missiles killed Baghdadi’s son

ISIS’s propaganda outlet Amaq said Hudhayfah al-Badri was killed in an “operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs”, in a statement published Tuesday alongside a photo of a young man holding an assault rifle.

Nussayriyyah is the term used by ISIS for the Alawite religious minority sect of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Iraq’s Falcon’s intelligence cell said Russian forces on Monday fired three missiles at a cave in Homs that held 30 “terrorist leaders” and several of Badri’s bodyguards. It said 11 people were killed in the attack.