This is a breaking news item, so it won't be much of a diary. Al Arabiya is reporting that Daesh(ISIS) "Caliph" Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been critically wounded in an airstrike in Iraq that was targeting ISIS leaders.
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Saturday, 8 November 2014
The leader of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was “critically wounded” when a U.S.-led air strike targeted the western Iraqi border town of al-Qaim, tribal sources told Al Arabiya News Channel on Saturday.
U.S. Central Command confirmed in a statement that U.S.-led air strikes targeted ISIS leaders near their northern Iraqi hub of Mosul late Friday, without confirming whether Baghdadi was killed, AFP reported.
http://english.alarabiya.net/...
Meanwhile, the Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters, with assistance from coalition airstrikes, Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga, and some FSA fighters, seem to be pushing ISIS out of Kobane and may soon have them on the run.
It looks like the airstrikes and the arms aid that the neocon Republicans are always chiding as "not being nearly enough" are starting to have a serious, disastrous impact on ISIS...