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Turkish President Erdogan announced that Turkish forces killed the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, during an operation in Syria. The Turkish intelligence agency had been following him for a long time. Al-Qurayshi took over leadership of IS after its previous chief was killed in October. Turkey has conducted numerous operations against IS and Kurdish groups along the Syrian border, capturing or killing suspected militants.
Turkish forces have killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, during an operation in Syria. The Turkish intelligence agency had been following him for a long time. Turkey has conducted numerous operations against ISIS and Kurdish groups along the Syrian border, capturing or killing suspected militants. Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi took over leadership of ISIS at a time when the extremist group has lost control of the territory it once held in Iraq and Syria.
Turkey's President Erdogan has announced that the suspected leader of the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria, Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, has been "neutralised" in a Turkish intelligence agency operation. The MIT intelligence agency had been following Qurayshi for a "long time". The US said his predecessor was killed in an operation by the rebel Free Syrian Army in mid-October 2022. IS once held 88,000sq km (34,000sq miles) of territory stretching from north-eastern Syria across northern Iraq and imposed its brutal rule on almost eight million people.