The spokesman for the Islamic State (IS) group was killed on Sunday in a new raid in northern Syria, a Kurdish forces official said after Washington's unveiled death of the leader of the ultra-radical organization.
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Abu Hassan al-Muhajir was "killed," a senior Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) official told AFP, an alliance dominated by Kurdish fighters. He was "targeted" in the village of Ain al-Bayda in northern Aleppo province, near the town of Jarablos on the border with Turkey, had previously announced on Twitter the commander-in-chief of MSDS, Mazloum Abdi.
"The terrorist Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's right-hand man and spokesman for the Daesh organization, has been targeted," said Commander Mazloum Abdi on Twitter using the Arabic acronym EI. This operation was conducted "in direct coordination between the SDF intelligence and the US military," he added.
Near the village of Ain al-Bayda, an AFP correspondent heard aerial bombardments before seeing two trucks burned. He saw two charred bodies. A third body, also carbonized, was found in a container.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) confirmed an operation "US forces in cooperation with the Syrian Democratic Forces". The OSDH ensured that Abu Hassan al-Muhajir and four other IS fighters were killed in the air raid. They were targeted as they attempted to flee clandestinely with other IS fighters.
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US President Donald Trump announced the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a US military operation in northwestern Syria conducted on Saturday night. In confirming the raid, President Trump said the IS leader had detonated his "jacket" of explosives. In an April 2017 audio recording shared on IS's communication channels, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir insulted President Trump, calling him "an ugly idiot who does not know what Syria is, Iraq , and Islam ". His last recording dates back to March 2019, just days before the announcement by Kurdish forces of the end of the "caliphate" of the IS with the reconquest of the village of Baghouz on the eastern borders of Syria. He had asked supporters of the jihadist group to mobilize in the areas held by the SDS.