The Islamic State group announces the death of its leader Abu Hassan al-Hachimi al-Qurachi

A member of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Raqqa, June 29, 2014 (illustrative image).

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The Islamic State group (IS), defeated in Iraq and Syria, announced on Wednesday the death of its leader, Abu Hassan al-Hachimi al-Qurachi, specifying that he had been killed " 

 ".

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In an audio message, the spokesperson for the jihadist group announced that a new " 

 ", Abu Al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurachi, had been appointed.

The group's spokesman, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, did not specify in his message the circumstances of the death of the leader of the group, an Iraqi.

Nor does he give any indication of the new leader of the group, who bears the same name Al-Qourachi as his predecessor, which refers to the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad, from whom the self-proclaimed "caliph" must be a descendant.

After a meteoric rise in power in 2014 in Iraq and Syria, and the conquest of vast territories, the IS saw its self-proclaimed "caliphate" being overthrown under the blow of successive offensives in these two countries, respectively in 2017 and 2019. .

Since then, the organization has been destabilized several times by the death or capture of its leaders.

ISIS 's first leader,

, was killed in a 2019 US raid in Syria and his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurachi, was eliminated in February in a US special forces operation in the northwest of the country.

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AFP)

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