World News | IS Says Leader Abu Al-Hassan Al-Qurayshi Killed in Battle
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle recently, the group's spokesman said in audio released Wednesday without giving further details.
Beirut, Nov 30 (AP) The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle recently, the group's spokesman said in audio released Wednesday without giving further details.
Little had been known about al-Qurayshi, who took over the group's leadership following the death of his predecessor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, in a U.S. raid in February in northwest Syria.
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The death will be a blow to the group as al-Qurayshi is the second leader to be killed this year.
The announcement by IS spokesman Abu Omar al-Muhajer came at a time when IS has been trying to carry out deadly attacks in parts of Syria and Iraq the extremists once declared a caliphate.
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Al-Muhajer said that a new leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, was named as the group's new leader.
Al-Qurayshi is the third leader to be killed since its founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hunted down by the Americans in a raid in northwest in October 2019.
No one claimed responsibility for the killing. (AP)
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