Baghdad:
The chief of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed, Iraq’s prime minister stated on Friday, describing him as “one of the crucial harmful terrorists in Iraq and the world.”
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani stated Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay’i, also called Abu Khadija, had been killed by Iraqi safety forces, with the help of the US-led coalition preventing Islamic State.
Islamic State imposed hardline Islamist rule over hundreds of thousands of individuals in Syria and Iraq for years, and has been making an attempt to stage a comeback within the Center East, the West and Asia.
Former Islamic State chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate over 1 / 4 of Iraq and Syria in 2014 earlier than he was killed in a raid by US particular forces in northwest Syria in 2019 because the group collapsed.
The US Central Command stated final July that the group was been making an attempt to “reconstitute following a number of years of decreased functionality.”
The command primarily based its evaluation on Islamic State claims of mounting 153 assaults in Iraq and Syria within the first half of 2024, a fee that will put the group “on tempo to greater than double the variety of assaults” claimed the 12 months earlier than.
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