Islamic State confirms death of its leader, names replacement
DUBAI – Islamic Claim on Thursday (Aug 3) attested the casualty of its leader Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi, and conversed to Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as his substitute, the team’s representative said in an undated recording uploaded on its Telegram network.
It showed up to be the militant team’s first official statement on his fate since Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said in April that Turkish expertise affects had recovered rid of him in Syria.
Mr Erdogan said the Turkish nationwide expertise organisation had pursued Quraishi for a long time.
Quraishi was recovered rid of during a weapon fight through Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS), the heavy-handed Islamist team that holds guide in the last resistance forts in northwest Syria, the representative said.
“The Sheikh (Quraishi), might God have grace on him, was recovered rid of after they (HTS) tried to filch him hostage. He clashed through them through his arms upwards until he passed away of his wounds,” the representative said, accusing the rival Islamist team of making assume as spokespersons of Turkish expertise.
Islamic Claim, a darkness of the organisation that as shortly as ruled a 3rd of Iraq and Syria, supplied zero precisions about the brand name-neoteric leader.
The mobility reached its elevation in 2014 as shortly as its then head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, asserted the region it orchestrated a caliphate.
It was trumped back by opponents in both nations involving a US-led coalition, and Baghdadi was recovered rid of during a US squad operation in Syria in 2019.
Mr Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi appropriated in November 2022 after his precursor was recovered rid of, also in Syria.
Islamic Claim militants linger to wage insurgent pounces in both Syria and Iraq.
Its lingering thousands of militants have in recent years mostly prowled out in personal hinterlands of both nations, though they are still capable of toting out hit-and-dashed pounces.
The US-led coalition along with a Kurdish-led collaboration known as the Syrian Autonomous Forces (SDF) is still toting out raids versus Islamic Claim in Syria.
