Islamic State chief killed in Syria, says Turkey
Recep Tayyip Erdogan advised TRT Turk television in an interview late on Sunday that the IS chief, codenamed Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, was killed in a strike carried out on Saturday.
Mr Erdogan mentioned the Turkish intelligence company, MIT, had been following him “for a long time”.
“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organisations without discriminating against any of them,” he mentioned within the interview.
Turkey has carried out quite a few operations in opposition to IS and Kurdish teams alongside the Syrian border, capturing or killing suspected militants.
The nation controls massive swathes of territory in northern Syria following a collection of land incursions to drive Kurdish teams away from the Turkish-Syrian border.
Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi was named chief of the militant group after its earlier chief was killed in October, with an IS spokesman calling him “one of the veteran warriors and one of the loyal sons of the Islamic State”.
He took over management of IS at a time when the extremist group has misplaced management of the territory it as soon as held in Iraq and Syria. However, he had been attempting to rise once more, with sleeper cells finishing up lethal assaults in each international locations.
Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was hunted down by US forces in a raid in north-west Syria in October 2019.
His successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in an identical raid in February 2022.
He was adopted by Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, who, in line with the US army, was killed in mid-October in an operation by Syrian rebels in Syria’s southern province of Daraa.
The Islamic State group broke away from al Qaida a few decade in the past and ended up controlling massive elements of northern and jap Syria in addition to northern and western Iraq.
In 2014, the extremists declared their so-called caliphate, attracting supporters from world wide.
In the next years, they claimed assaults all through the world that killed and wounded lots of of individuals earlier than coming underneath assault from completely different sides.
In March 2019, US-backed Syrian fighters captured the final sliver of land the extremists as soon as held in Syria’s jap province of Deir el-Zour that borders Iraq.