ISIS admits the killing of its leader and announces his successor

ISIS has admitted the killing of its leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, and announced the appointment of Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi as his successor, according to a statement issued Thursday.

An ISIS spokesman confirmed in an audio recording that the group's leader and former spokesman had been killed.

On the second of last February, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi was killed, after he blew himself up, following an operation carried out by the American special forces in the town of Atma, northern Syria.

Al-Qurashi, whose death the organization admitted today, is one of the founders of the terrorist organization and one of its senior ideologues, and he assumed the leadership of the organization, succeeding Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who was also killed by US forces in Syria.

In August 2019, the United States allocated a financial reward of five million dollars, which was later doubled to ten million, in exchange for any information that leads it to him.

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