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Associated Press

The Islamic State group announced on Thursday the death of its little-known leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, who had been heading the extremist organisation since November.
It did not say when he was killed.
Al-Qurayshi is the fourth Isis leader to be killed since the group was founded by Iraqi militant Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and declared a caliphate in large parts of Syria and Iraq in June 2014 before its defeat years later.
Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was announced as the group’s fifth leader.


Isis spokesman Abu Huthaifa al-Ansari said in an audio message that al-Qurayshi “was martyred” in rebel-held northwestern Syria.
He added that al-Qurayshi was killed by members of Syria’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham when they tried to detain him in the province of Idlib.
“He fought them until he succumbed to his wounds,” al-Ansari said of al-Qurayshi, adding that the al-Qaeda-linked group detained some Isis members who were with the late leader, including Abu Omar al-Muhajir, another spokesman, and that they are still being held.
In April, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish intelligence agents had killed al-Qurayshi in northern Syria – a statement that Isis denied.
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Isis founder al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by Americans troops in northwestern Syria in October 2019.
The group’s leader after that, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was also killed in a US raid in February 2022, in northwestern Syria.
His successor was killed in southern Syria later that year.


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Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi is the fourth Isis head to be killed since the group was founded
The leader died fighting the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, when they tried to detain him in the province of Idlib.


Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi is the fourth Isis head to be killed since the group was founded.


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Islamic State says leader killed by al-Qaeda-linked militants in Syria

Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi is the fourth Isis head to be killed since the group was founded The leader died fighting the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, when they tried to detain him in the province of Idlib.

Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi is the fourth Isis head to be killed since the group was founded

The leader died fighting the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, when they tried to detain him in the province of Idlib.