A spokesman for the jihadist organization stated Hashimi, an Iraqi, changed into killed in fight with enemies of God, with out elaborating at the date of his dying or the circumstances.
The Islamic State jihadist organization stated Wednesday that its chief Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in warfare and introduced a replacement. A spokesman for the organization stated Hashimi, an Iraqi, changed into killed in fight with enemies of God, with out elaborating at the date of his dying or the circumstances.
Speaking in an audio message, the spokesman diagnosed the organization’s new chief as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi. Qurashi refers to a tribe of the Prophet Mohammed, from whom IS leaders should declare descent.
The spokesman did now no longer offer information on the brand new chief, however stated he changed into a “veteran” jihadist and known as on all organizations unswerving to IS to pledge their allegiance.
After a meteoric upward thrust in Iraq and Syria in 2014 that noticed it triumph over considerable swathes of territory, IS noticed its self-proclaimed “caliphate” crumble 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 nonetheless perform assaults in each countries.
IS’s preceding chief, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, changed into killed in February this 12 months 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.
Hassan Hassan, who authored a ee-e book on IS, stated one “unprecedented” however feasible state of affairs changed into that the Hashimi “changed into killed ‘accidentally’ at some stage in a raid or preventing with out him being acknowledged to whoever killed him”.
In October this 12 months, US forces killed a “senior” IS member in a pre-sunrise raid in northeastern Syria, america A navy’s Central Command stated on the time. It stated a later air strike had killed different senior IS members. The US leads a navy coalition combating IS in Syria.
In July, the Pentagon stated it had killed Syria’s pinnacle IS jihadist in a drone strike withinside the north of the country.US Central Command stated he had been “one of the pinnacle five” IS leaders.
Turkey in September stated safety forces had arrested a “senior executive” of IS referred to as Abu Zeyd, whose actual call changed into Bashar Khattab Ghazal al-Sumaidai. Turkish media stated there had been a few symptoms Sumaidai could have been the IS leader.
