US-led airstrikes target ISIS leaders

American forces launched a round of airstrikes that may have hit leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the military said Saturday.

Colonel Patrick Ryder, a spokesman at the U.S. military’s Central Command, told Reuters that he could not confirm reports that the strikes had killed the group’s top commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

He said strikes hit about 10 vehicles operated by ISIS in Mosul, Iraq, which the miltiary believed were carrying top officials.

“This strike demonstrates the pressure we continue to place on the ISIL terrorist network and the group’s increasingly limited freedom to maneuver, communicate and command,” US Central Command said in a statement, referring to another name for the group.

A Saudi-owned television station, al-Hadath, reported that the strikes targeted a gathering of ISIS leaders, which possibly included al-Baghdadi. The reports said that dozens of people had been killed.