Hudhayfah al-Badri, son of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed during a jihadist attack in the central Syrian province of Homs, according to ISIS propaganda agency al-Amaq. Al-Badri was killed in an "operation against the Nussayriyyah and the Russians at the Homs thermal power plant," the group said in a statement alongside a photo of a young man armed with an assault rifle. Nussayriyyah is the term used by ISIS to refer to President Bashar al-Assad's minority Alawite religious sect. The group's leader, al-Badri, who has been presumed dead on several occasions, remains alive in Syrian territory near the Iraqi border, according to Iraqi intelligence. Al-Badri had four children with his first wife and one son with his second wife.
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