2023-04-30 23:52:32
The President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced this Sunday that the Turkish secret services, known by the acronym MIT, They have killed the leader of the Islamic StateAbu al Hussein al Husseini al Qurashi, in an operation in Syria.
“MIT has long tracked the so-called leader of the Islamic State, Abu Husein al-Qurashi. Yesterday (for this Saturday), this person was neutralized in Syria,” Erdogan said during an interview on TRT public television.
“Our fight against terrorist organizations continues, without making distinctions. During our time, MIT has become an international fighting organization, reaching a level of talking to the US and Russian secret services,” the president said.
Erdogan He did not give further details about the operation. nor in what area of Syria it had been carried out.
Abu al Hussein al Hussein al Qurashi, about whose identity practically nothing is known, happened last November 30 to Abu Hasan al-Qurashikilled in southern Syria in an action in territory controlled by the Syrian government.
Abu Hasan had replaced in February 2022 Abu Ibrahim al Hashimi al Qurashiwho had become in 2019 the successor of the first ‘caliph’ of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi.
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