The Islamic State organization (ISIS) stated on Wednesday that its chief Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in warfare and introduced a replacement, AFP reported.
A spokesman for the fear organization stated Hashimi, an Iraqi, changed into killed “in fight with enemies of God”, with out elaborating at the date of his loss of life or the circumstances. Speaking in an audio message, the spokesman recognized the organization’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 upward thrust in Iraq and Syria in 2014 that noticed it triumph over giant swathes of territory, ISIS noticed its self-proclaimed “caliphate” fall apart beneathneath a wave of offensives.
It changed into defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria years later, however sleeper cells of the Sunni Muslim extremist organization nevertheless perform assaults in each international locations and declare assaults someplace else withinside the world.
ISIS’s preceding chief, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, changed into killed in advance this yr in a US raid in Idlib province in northern Syria.
His predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi changed into killed, additionally in Idlib, in October 2019.