Audio message purportedly of al-Baghdadi calls coalition effort a `` failure '' Troops that try to fight Kurdish are being sent to `` their deaths and destruction '' Message appears four years after reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in an airstrike . CNN can not confirm the authenticity of the online message or when it was recorded . Islamic State can not confirm those reports , or the audio message allegedly of al-Baghdadi .
Audio message purportedly of al-Baghdadi calls coalition effort a `` failure '' Troops that try to fight Kurdish are being sent to `` their deaths and destruction '' Message appears four years after reports that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was injured in an airstrike . Islamic State can not confirm those reports , or the audio message allegedly of al-Baghdadi .