According to The Guardian, Baghdadi is still incapacitated due to a possible spinal injury and has not resumed command.
Sources told the paper his injuries may mean he will never be able to lead Isis again, and it is now being led by senior official and deputy leader, Abu Alaa al-Afri.
One Isis member said: 'They are planning to fight back against Europe. They want to take revenge for Baghdadi.'
Last year there were two reports that Baghdadi had been wounded, but they turned out to be inaccurate.
He escaped death in December when US jets attacked a two-car convoy on the outskirts of Mosul.
His close aide Auf Abdul Rahman al-Efery was killed when a rocket fired from a war plane hit one of the cars.
Baghdadi was believed to be in the second car, which was not hit.
Figures from February showed allied airstrikes, including those carried out by British warplanes, had killed more than 6,000 fighters since September.
The figure included more than half of the militants on the IS ruling council.
Among the dead jihadists was Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, a former Iraqi army lieutenant colonel considered Baghdadi’s number two and the most senior IS militant in Iraq.
His death and that of as many as nine others on the 18-man leadership council forced Baghdadi to promote local warlords to the status of regional commanders, as his inner circle of trusted advisers and battle-hardened loyalists became increasingly small.
Baghdadi, 43, was the head of al-Qaeda in Iraq before founding the Islamic State in Iraq in 2010, while he was declared head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in 2013.
In June last year, the Islamic State declared itself a caliphate, with al-Baghdadi declared as its ‘Caliph’ or ruler.
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