Islamic State affirms pioneer was killed in US attack, presently has another pioneer

Hira Menon
2 min readMar 12, 2022

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Interestingly on Thursday did the Islamic State association uncovered and affirmed that its chief has killed last month in north-western Syria in a US strike. The IS has additionally hence named his replacement.

IS representative, Abu Omar al-Muhajir affirmed the demise of the innovator in a sound message that was delivered on Thursday expressing that the gathering’s chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, as well as its previous representative, Abu Hamza al-Qurayshi, were killed in the US strike. The representative further said that the gathering has named its new chief, recognizing him as Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi. He added that the late head of the gathering had picked him. Without uncovering his name, the representative said, “He has acknowledged the initiative.”

It hasn’t been cleared assuming that the new pioneer is likewise Iraqi like his two ancestors. Be that as it may, not even one of them is apparently related. “Al-Qurayshi” in name of this large number of pioneers is gotten from Quraish, which is the name of the clan to which Islam’s Prophet Mohammad had a place. This additionally fills in as a feature of an IS pioneer’s nom de guerre.

Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed on February 3 during a short-term strike by US powers. As indicated by the US authorities, he blew himself alongside relatives as the unique powers attacked his safe-house in Atme, a town in the northwestern piece of Syria close to the Turkish line. It was accounted for that an aggregate of 13 individuals was killed, including four ladies and six kids.

Following the killing of “this awful psychological oppressor pioneer”, US President Joe Biden said in a broadcast address that he was blamed for the slaughter of Yazidis in the northern piece of Iraq and furthermore attack of jail in eastern Syria holding IS detainees. Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi drove ISIS in 2019. He was an ethnic Turkmen from the Iraqi city of Tal Afar and had supplanted ISIS supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was killed in October that year in a US attack.

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