Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his counterpart in Russia on the alleged death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of Daesh.
The Foreign Secretary has not raised this issue with Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. The whereabouts of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi remains unknown at this time. We and the Global Coalition have not been able to confirm the claim made by the Russians.