The jihadist group Islamic State (EI), defeated in Iraq and Syria, announced on Wednesday, November 30, the death of its leader, Abu al-Hassan al-Qourachi, specifying that he had been killed "while fighting the enemies of God".
In an audio message, the spokesman for the jihadist organization announced that a new "caliph of Muslims", 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.
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Nor does it give any indication of the group's new leader, who bears the same name – Al-Qurachi – as his predecessor, who 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, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi al-Qurachi, 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.
With AFP
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