IS leader killed – Middle East

“Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi was killed,” wrote the Jerusalem Post.

The Israeli publication refers to a message from the radical Muslim group in Arabic that was circulated on the Internet. “It says that Abu Ibrahim al-Shami al-Quraishi died in battle,” the media also underlined.

“No details are being released at this stage,” the paper added.

“Probably the new IS leader is Abu Hassan al-Hussaini al-Qurayshi,” the publication also wrote.

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The newly elected IS leader bears the same name of al-Qureishi as his predecessor, related to the tribe of the Prophet Mohammed – “Qureishi”, of which the self-proclaimed “caliph” is allegedly a descendant.

After its rapid rise in 2014 in Iraq and Syria and the conquest of large territories, IS and its self-proclaimed “caliphate” have fallen to the blows of successive offensives in these two countries, in 2017 and 2019 respectively, noted AFP, quoted by BTA. Since then, the organization has been repeatedly destabilized by the assassination or capture of its leaders.

The first IS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qureishi, was killed in a 2019 US attack in Syria, and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qureishi, was killed in February this year in an operation of US special forces in the northwest On the side.