The terrorist group Islamic State confirmed on Thursday the death of its leader, the self-styled caliph Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.
According to an audio from the jihadist group’s spokesman, Abu Huzaifa al-Ansaribroadcast on Telegram, al-Qurashi was killed during a clash with another Islamic terrorist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a splinter of Al Qaeda, in Syria’s Idlib province.
According to the spokesman’s audio, the HTS terrorists attacked Islamic State with the aim of taking their leader prisoner.
The area where the confrontation took place is an area controlled by rebel and terrorist groups, where the syrian army He still hasn’t been able to regain control.
Likewise, the terrorist group has named a new leader of the Islamic State: Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.
The news of the death of Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi has surprised the media since last April, the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoganhad announced that his troops deployed in the country had managed to eliminate the leader of the Islamic State.
Abu al Hussein al-Huseini al-Qurashi, about whose identity practically nothing is known, happened last November 30 to Abu Hasan al-Qurashikilled in southern Syria in an action in territory controlled by the Syrian government.
Abu Hasan had replaced in February 2022 a Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al-Qurashiwho had become the successor of the first ‘caliph’ of the Islamic State in 2019, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
The group Islamic Statewhich came to conquer large regions of Syria and northern Iraq between 2014 and 2017, is trying to rebuild its structures after being dispossessed of practically all its fiefs after its defeat in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria in 2019.
