World News: Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qureshi, the biggest leader of the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has died. An ISIS spokesman said in a statement on Wednesday (20 November) that Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qureshi, has been killed in an Iraqi war. He did not elaborate much on the date or circumstances of his death. He announced the name of the new leader of ISIS. He said that from now on Abu al-Hussein al-Hussaini would be the new leader of the al-Qurayshi organization.
However, the United States military’s CENTCOM stated that Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was killed in October itself.
what did america say
The US side said that “the operation was conducted by the Free Syrian Army in the Daraa (Dera) region in Syria. The US military reported that ISIS continues to be a threat to the region. CENTCOM spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino said in his Said in a statement that CENTCOM and our allies are keeping an eye on ISIS.
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He said Syrian fighters involved in the battle told Reuters news agency that Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qureshi blew himself up after being surrounded by local fighters in the town of Jasem.
2 chief died this year
Before the death of Abu Hasan, there was news that the previous chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qureshi had been killed in an American operation. Abu Ibrahim was killed in a US operation in northwestern Syria on February 2, which was announced by US President Joe Biden at the time. No American personnel were killed in that operation.
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in 2019.
In October 2019, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then ISIS chief and the most prominent face of ISIS, was killed in a US military operation. He was killed in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qureshi is the third ISIL leader to be killed by the US in 2019 after founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, Syria.
What is Inherent Resolution
The ISIL group declared its so-called “caliphate” in 2014 after capturing much of Iraq and Syria. The US also launched an operation named “Inherent Resolve” in 2014 to drive ISIL out of areas under its control.
Why ISIS chiefs put ‘al’ in front of their names
The current ISIS chief and the previous two chiefs have had ‘Al Qureshi’ written in front of their names. This is not their real name and does not mean that they are related to each other. The ‘Quraysh tribe’ was the tribe of Prophet Muhammad and ISIS adds ‘Qureshi’ to the names of its leaders to identify them as the great leaders of the Muslim nation.
How was ISIS established?
ISIS is considered a branch of Al-Qaeda. It emerged in 2003 as an Islamist insurgency against the US military following the overthrow of Sunni Muslim dictator Saddam Hussein. This terrorist organization Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ie ISIS was born in 1999 during the last decade. It is a militant Islamist group and a jihadist Sunni military group active in Iraq and Syria.
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