(The Daily Star)- The ex-wife of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who is formally under the custody of Lebanese authorities, allegedly gave birth at one of Lebanon's military hospitals, pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported Tuesday.
The daily cited judicial sources as saying that the that Iraqi national, Saja Hamid al-Dulaimi, who was three weeks pregnant from her Palestinian husband Kamal Khalaf when arrested in November last year, gave birth at a military hospital in Lebanon. The report did not mention when the woman went into labor but it is most likely that she gave birth sometime between the end of May and the beginning of June.
The infant is reportedly still with al-Dulaimi at a General Security detention center.
Al-Dulaimi, one of al-Baghdadi’s wives, was married to him for a short period six years ago.
She was detained with her daughter Hajjar in north Lebanon after she was found carrying a fake passport.
Al-Hayat says that Khalaf remains at large, despite previous reports saying that he was detained with his wife.
The last audio message purportedly from Baghdadi came in November, days after Iraqi officials said he was wounded in an airstrike on an Iraqi town near the Syrian border.
Baghdadi has only appeared in public once, in a video showing him delivering a Friday sermon in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul last July, shortly after it was captured by his group.
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