{"id":1990804,"date":"2023-08-04T11:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/islamic-state-finally-admits-top-leader-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T11:12:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T15:12:44","slug":"islamic-state-finally-admits-top-leader-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/islamic-state-finally-admits-top-leader-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS Confirms Death of High-Ranking Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fislamic-state-finally-admits-top-leader-is-dead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1990804&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Islamic \u200cState Confirms\u200c Death of Leader and Names Replacement<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The \u200bIslamic State on Thursday confirmed\u200b the \u200dApril death of\u200b its leader, Abu \u200cHussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi, and\u200b named Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi\u2063 as his replacement, the \u2064group&#8217;s spokesman said in an undated\u2063 recording published on its\u200b Telegram channel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It appeared to be the militant group&#8217;s first official announcement on his fate since\u2062 Turkish president Recep\u2064 Tayyip \u2064Erdo\u011fan said\u2064 in \u200bApril that Turkish intelligence \u2063forces had\u200d killed him in Syria. Erdo\u011fan said the Turkish national intelligence organization had \u200dpursued \u2064Quraishi for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi is the \u200dthird leader of the\u2064 Islamic State, also known as\u2062 ISIS, to\u200d be killed in less\u2064 than \u2063two years, the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/islamic-state-confirms-top-leader-is-dead-dfc114a3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The group, which controlled \u200dlarge portions of Iraq\u2063 and Syria until a U.S.-led military force\u2062 beat it \u200bback in 2019, has long \u200dhad \u200cdifficulty acknowledging when a leader is killed. The group last year took\u200b a month to <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/11\/30\/middleeast\/isis-leader-dies-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> \u200dthe death of its previous leader.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s spokesman\u200c said Abu\u2064 Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi was killed during a gun battle with Hayat Tahrir al Sham (HTS),\u200d the \u2063main Islamist\u2064 group that holds sway\u200b in the last \u2063opposition bastion in northwest Syria. \u200dThe \u2063spokesman accused HTS of acting as agents of Turkish intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u2064 Sheikh (Quraishi), may God have mercy on him, was killed after they [HTS] \u2063tried to take him captive. He clashed \u2062with them with \u2064his arms until he died of his wounds,&#8221;\u200d the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic State, a shadow of the \u200dorganization that\u200c once ruled \u200da third of Iraq and Syria, gave no\u200c details about the new leader.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063movement reached\u2063 its peak in 2014 when \u200dits then-head, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, \u200ddeclared the territory it controlled \u2064a caliphate.<\/p>\n<p>It was beaten back by adversaries in both countries, including a \u2062U.S.-led coalition, and Baghdadi was killed during a\u2064 U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/confirmed-chinese-troops-on-canadian-soil-during-military-exercises\/\" title=\"Confirmed: Chinese Troops on Canadian Soil During Military Exercises\">military operation<\/a> in Syria in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Abu Hussein\u2063 al-Husseini al-Quraishi took over in November 2022 \u2064after his predecessor was killed,\u200b also in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State\u200c militants continue \u2063to wage insurgent attacks in both\u2062 Syria and Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Its remaining thousands of militants have in recent years mostly hid out in remote hinterlands of both countries, though they are still capable of carrying out hit-and-run attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S.-led \u2062coalition alongside a Kurdish-led alliance known as the Syrian\u2064 Democratic Forces (SDF) is still carrying out\u200b raids against Islamic State in Syria.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Reporting \u200bby Jana \u200dChoukeir, Nayera Abdallah, and Nadine Awadalla. \u2064Writing by Enas Alashray. Editing\u200d by Andrew Heavens and Grant\u200c McCool.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Islamic State confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi, and announced Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as his successor. The group&#8217;s spokesman shared this news in a recording on their Telegram channel. This marks their first official statement on his fate since Turkish president Recep. 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