An image taken on Oct. 2, 2013, from a video uploaded on YouTube on July 8, 2012, of Islamic State spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. The competing strike narratives between the United States and Russia set off a bout of verbal sparring as they simultaneously took credit for Adnani’s death. In March, the Pentagon also said it had killed the Islamic State’s minister of war, Omar Shishani, when it, in fact, did not. The Islamic State announced Shishani’s death in July after a U.S. airstrike targeted him — again — near the Iraqi city of Mosul. On Monday, a cease-fire recently brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect throughout the war-torn country but was almost immediately violated.

Source: Washington Post September 13, 2016 00:11 UTC