ISIS is getting desperate

The tide is turning against the Islamist group in Iraq

ISIS stronghold
(Image credit: (Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images))

After a string of victories by Iraqi and Kurdish forces against ISIS over the past few weeks, the rumors started popping up online: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, had been replaced by his Syrian deputy, Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.

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