# War and Conflict -ato_time: 2025-03-14 22:02:08 GMT
# War and Conflict -post_author: Raymond Mahdi
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# War and Conflict -post_date: 2025-03-14 18:04:10
# War and Conflict -post_title: Islamic State Leader Killed in Iraq, U.S. Says
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# War and Conflict -post_name: islamic-state-leader-killed-in-iraq-u-s-says
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In a major blow to the Islamic State, an American-led coalition said that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayishi, the militant group’s leader, was killed in a coordinated operation in northwestern Syria, the Associated Press reported. The Qatar-based news service al Jazeera reported that he was killed in an airstrike.
This comes after the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in a statement, urged for the revamping of the virtual caliphate for justice, after an arrest operation in Saudi Arabia. This announcement follows the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, by United States forces in Syria last October.
“Al-Qurayishi was planning imminent attacks on coalition forces and innocent civilians, directly threatening the lives and safety of our people,” said Army Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to the A.P. The release by the coalition, the statement read, also mentioned that al-Hashimi, who was born in Iraq as Abdul al–Ahad al-Qurayshi, is credited with being one of the most elusive leaders of the Islamic State group.
Christopher Swift, a terrorism researcher at the University of Virginia, said al-Qurayishi was either killed last month in a Feb. 3 strike by the U.S. that targeted senior Islamic State leaders, or died in an attack in Deir al-Zour, Syria, last October, according to the report. The strike killed, among others, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, the group’s third-ranking leader, according to the report. Can you confirm that al-Qurayishi was killed in an attack in Deir al-Zour, Syria, last October? If so, please clarify what evidence supports this claim.
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