The Islamic State (IS) group, defeated in Iraq and Syria, announced on Wednesday the death of the leader of the jihadist movement, the Iraqi Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, specifying that he was assassinated “while fighting against the enemies of Allah”. .
In an audio message, the ‘jihadist’ group’s spokesman, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, announced that Abu Al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi had been chosen as the “new caliph of the Muslims”.
“I regret to announce to the Muslims and the soldiers of the Islamic Caliphate the death of the Prince of the Believers, Abu Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi, during a battle in which he was fighting against the enemies of Allah,” an Islamic State spokesman said. .
Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was elected as the leader of the IS group last March.
The spokesman for the group did not specify in the message the circumstances of the death of the group’s leader, the second of an IS chief in less than a year, but added that the new chief was elected after a meeting of the movement’s leadership. jihadist.
The first leader of the IS group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurashi, was killed in 2019 in a US attack in the province of Idlib, a stronghold of the Syrian opposition in the northeast of the country, and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al -Qurashi, was shot down on February 3 of this year in another special operation by US troops in the northwest of the country.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurashi was proclaimed caliph by the Islamic State group in 2019, after the death of his predecessor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Since al-Baghdadi’s death, leaders of the Islamic State group began including the name al-Qurashi, referring to the Quraysh tribe to which the Prophet Muhammad belonged.
After a meteoric rise to power in 2014 in Iraq and Syria, and the conquest of vast territories, IS saw its self-proclaimed “caliphate” overthrown after successive military offensives in these two countries, respectively in 2017 and 2019.
Since then, the organization has been destabilized on several occasions by the death or capture of several of its leaders.
Source: TSF
