ATLANTA (Pajhwok): Daesh or Islamic State (IS) group has confirmed the death of its leader, Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, and named his replacement, according to media reports.
In April, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkish intelligence forces had killed the leader in Syria, Al-Jazeera reported.
“The suspected leader of Daesh, codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has been neutralised in an operation carried out… by the MIT [National Intelligence Organisation] in Syria,” Erdogan said at the time, using the Arabic s for ISIL.
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