Russian raid kills Baghdadi’s son

Russian forces killed the son of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a missile attack on a Syrian cave in which he was hiding, Iraqi intelligence said on Wednesday. IS’ 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 on Tuesday alongside a photo of a young man holding an assault rifle. Nussayriyyah is the term used by the IS for the Alawite religious 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.