US-led airstrikes on Friday destroyed a number of booby-trapped cars driven by Daesh suicide bombers before hitting positions controlled by Iraqi troops in Fallujah city of Anbar province, an Iraqi military source said.

Meanwhile, spokesman for the US-led coalition fighting Daesh in Iraq Colonel Chris Garver said he can not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Daesh leader Abu Bakr al Baghdadi had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq.

He added that he had seen the reports but had "nothing to confirm this report at the present time".

The local Al Sumariya TV channel cited a local source in the northern province of Nineveh as saying that Baghdadi and other Daesh leaders were wounded on Thursday in a coalition air strike on one of the group's command headquarters close to the Syrian border.

Source : MENA