ISIS leader not targeted in Iraq: US

A Pentagon spokesman says a US airstrike on a 10-vehicle convoy in northern Iraq last week was targeting Islamic State ‘battlefield leaders,’ but not senior leaders like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the group’s most senior leader. The spokesman, Col Steve Warren, said Monday that US officials are unable to confirm reports that al-Baghdadi was wounded. An Iraq interior ministry intelligence official told Associated Press on Sunday that an Iraqi airstrike Saturday wounded al-Baghdadi during a meeting in the town of Qaim, near the Syrian border. That would be separate from the US airstrike described by Warren, which happened near Mosul.