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Group ISIS on Thursday (3/8) local time announced the death of its leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, who it said was killed in fighting in the northwestern region Syria.
“The leader died in direct combat with the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province,” an ISIS spokesman said in a message recorded on his channel on the messaging app Telegram, without specifying when he was killed.
Reported by the news agency AFPFriday (4/8/2023), the ISIS spokesperson also announced the group’s new leader – the fifth – to be Abi Hafsan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.
ISIS has skyrocketed in Iraq and Syria in 2014, by conquering large parts of these countries. However, the self-proclaimed ISIS “caliphate” eventually fell following a wave of attacks by the international coalition.
Previously, ISIS’s “caliphate” was marked by beheadings and mass shootings.
IS was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, but sleeper cells are still carrying out attacks in both countries.
In November last year, ISIS said its previous leader, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, had been killed.
His predecessor, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, was killed in February last year in an attack United States of America in Idlib province, Syria.
The group’s first leader or “caliph”, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was also killed in Idlib, in October 2019.
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2023-08-04 03:41:36
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