Al-Qurashi “died after a clash” with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham formation (HTS, former local branch of the Al-Qaeda network), which tried to capture him in a city in the Syrian province of Idlib, the spokesman said of ISIS on Telegram, without specifying the exact location or date of the events.
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The spokesman indicated that IS has appointed a new leader, Abu Hafsan al Hashimi al Qurashi, the fifth head of the ultra-radical organization in less than a decade.
After a peak in 2014, IS's self-proclaimed “caliphate” in Syria and Iraq was defeated by successive offensives launched with the support of an international coalition led by the United States.
The ultra-radical Sunni organization (a branch of Islam) imposed a regime of terror in the areas under its control, with beheadings and executions.
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Iraq proclaimed, at the end of 2017, its military victory against the jihadists, who lost their stronghold in Syria in 2019, although IS cells still sporadically attack security forces and civilians in both countries.
In November 2022, IS had announced the death of its previous leader, Abu Hasan al Hashimi al Qurashi, without specifying the circumstances.
His predecessor, Abu Ibrahim al Qurashi, was killed in February in a US bombing raid in Idlib province.
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He had succeeded Abu Bakr al Baghdadi in October 2019, who was also killed in an operation in Idlib.
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