Baladi News - Media
Several media outlets reported that a son of Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed in the city of Homs in Syria, according to the organisation's news channel.
"Hudayfah al-Badri ... the son of the Caliph... was killed in an operation against the Nusayriyyah and the Russians at the thermal power station in Homs," the statement said.
Nussayriyyah is the term used by IS for the Alawite religious minority sect of Bashar al-Assad.
Pro-IS twitter accounts circulated a supposed photo of Badri, showing a male in his early teens holding a machine gun.
The Islamic State group is estimated to control no more than three percent of Syria's territory.
The group's leader Baghdadi, who has been pronounced dead on several occasions, remains alive in Syrian territory by the Iraqi border, an Iraqi intelligence official said in May. Baghdadi was said to move around with only a small group of followers.
It should be noted that this is not the first attack by the IS against Russia and Assad forces. IS has clashed with Russian and Assad forces for the control of Palmyra, the natural gas fields and some military bases, as well as several other clashes in the province of Homs and elsewhere.
Sources: Media outlets + Baladi News