ISIS says its chief Abu Hasan al-Qurashi killed ‘in combat with enemies of God’ | World Info

The Islamic State group (ISIS) talked about on Wednesday that its chief Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and launched a different, AFP reported.

A spokesman for the phobia group talked about Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed “in combat with enemies of God”, with out elaborating on the date of his lack of life or the circumstances. Speaking in an audio message, the spokesman acknowledged the group’s new chief as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.

Qurashi refers to a tribe of the Prophet Mohammed, from whom ISIS leaders ought to declare descent.

After a meteoric rise in Iraq and Syria in 2014 that observed it conquer big swathes of territory, ISIS observed its self-proclaimed “caliphate” collapse beneath a wave of offensives.

It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, nonetheless sleeper cells of the Sunni Muslim extremist group nonetheless carry out assaults in every nations and declare assaults elsewhere on this planet.

ISIS’s earlier chief, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, was killed earlier this yr in a US raid in Idlib province in northern Syria.

His predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, moreover in Idlib, in October 2019.