ISIS showed on Thursday the loss of life of its chief Abu Ibrahim Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi and its spokesperson Abu Hamza Al-Quraishi, and introduced Abu Al-Hassan Al-hashemi Al-Quraishi as its new chief.
Quraishi, a non secular student and soldier in former Iraqi chief Saddam Hussein’s navy who led IS from the shadows for a bit over years, died in a U.S. unique forces raid in northern Syria in February whilst he detonated a bomb that killed him and own circle of relatives members, the U.S. management stated.
The loss of life of Quraishi, 45, become any other crushing blow to IS years after the violent Sunni Muslim organization misplaced longtime chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a comparable raid in 2019.
The organization did now no longer deny or affirm the U.S. narrative and the brand new IS spokesman, Abu Umar al Muhajir, stated in a recorded speech on Thursday that Quraishi’s remaining warfare become at Ghuwayran jail withinside the northeastern Syrian town of Hasaka.
At least two hundred jail inmates and militants in addition to 30 safety forces died in an Islamic State assault at the prison in January in a bid to unfastened their members, officers have stated.