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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday evening that Turkish forces had killed the leader of the Islamic State group during an operation in Syria.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told TRT Turk TV in an interview that the ISIS leader called him by his code name Abu Hussein al-Qurayshiin a raid carried out on Saturday.
Erdogan said Turkish intelligence agencyMIT, has been following him for “a long time”.
“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organizations without discriminating against any of them,” Erdogan said in the interview.
A member of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces’ military police told The Associated Press that the intelligence service clashed with Islamic State militants at a farm in the village of Miska in Aleppo province late Friday night. As the fighting intensified, al-Quraishi, who had been hiding in a building in Mazraa, blew himself up. Investigators were searching the hideout for clues and other information.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition war monitor, added that Turkish drones flew over the area, as Turkish-backed Syrian opposition groups closed the roads leading to the area where the clashes took place after Ankara put them on high alert.
There was no immediate confirmation from the ISIS group.
Turkey has carried out numerous operations against ISIS and Kurdish groups along the Syrian border, capturing or killing suspected militants. The state controls swathes of territory in northern Syria after a series of ground incursions to drive Kurdish groups away from the Turkish-Syrian border.
Abu Hussain al-Quraishi was named the militant group’s leader after its former leader was killed in October, with an IS spokesman describing him as “a veteran and one of the loyal sons of the Islamic State”.
He assumed leadership of the Islamic State at a time when the extremist group had lost control of the territories it once controlled in Iraq and Syria. However, he was trying to rise again, as sleeper cells are carrying out deadly attacks in both countries.
US forces pursued Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in northwestern Syria in October 2019. His successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, was killed in a similar raid in February 2022. He followed suit. Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, who was killed, according to the US military, in mid-October in an operation launched by Syrian opposition fighters in Daraa Governorate, southern Syria.
He does not believe that any of the Qurayshis are related. Al-Quraishi is not their real name but it comes from Quraish, the name of the tribe to which the Islamic prophet Muhammad belonged. The Islamic State claims that its leaders hail from this tribe and that “Qurayshi” is part of the ISIS leader’s nom de guerre.
The Islamic State broke away from al-Qaeda nearly a decade ago and ended up controlling large parts of northern and eastern Syria as well as northern and western Iraq. In 2014, extremists announced the so-called caliphate, attracting supporters from all over the world.
In the following years, they claimed attacks all over the world killing and wounding hundreds of people before they were attacked from different quarters. In March 2019, US-backed Syrian fighters seized the last sliver of land once held by extremists in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on the border with Iraq.
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told TRT Turk TV in an interview that the ISIS leader called him by his code name Abu Hussein al-Qurayshiin a raid carried out on Saturday.
Erdogan said Turkish intelligence agencyMIT, has been following him for “a long time”.
“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organizations without discriminating against any of them,” Erdogan said in the interview.
A member of the Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces’ military police told The Associated Press that the intelligence service clashed with Islamic State militants at a farm in the village of Miska in Aleppo province late Friday night. As the fighting intensified, al-Quraishi, who had been hiding in a building in Mazraa, blew himself up. Investigators were searching the hideout for clues and other information.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based opposition war monitor, added that Turkish drones flew over the area, as Turkish-backed Syrian opposition groups closed the roads leading to the area where the clashes took place after Ankara put them on high alert.
There was no immediate confirmation from the ISIS group.
Turkey has carried out numerous operations against ISIS and Kurdish groups along the Syrian border, capturing or killing suspected militants. The state controls swathes of territory in northern Syria after a series of ground incursions to drive Kurdish groups away from the Turkish-Syrian border.
Abu Hussain al-Quraishi was named the militant group’s leader after its former leader was killed in October, with an IS spokesman describing him as “a veteran and one of the loyal sons of the Islamic State”.
He assumed leadership of the Islamic State at a time when the extremist group had lost control of the territories it once controlled in Iraq and Syria. However, he was trying to rise again, as sleeper cells are carrying out deadly attacks in both countries.
US forces pursued Islamic State founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a raid in northwestern Syria in October 2019. His successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, was killed in a similar raid in February 2022. He followed suit. Abu al-Hasan al-Hashimi al-Quraishi, who was killed, according to the US military, in mid-October in an operation launched by Syrian opposition fighters in Daraa Governorate, southern Syria.
He does not believe that any of the Qurayshis are related. Al-Quraishi is not their real name but it comes from Quraish, the name of the tribe to which the Islamic prophet Muhammad belonged. The Islamic State claims that its leaders hail from this tribe and that “Qurayshi” is part of the ISIS leader’s nom de guerre.
The Islamic State broke away from al-Qaeda nearly a decade ago and ended up controlling large parts of northern and eastern Syria as well as northern and western Iraq. In 2014, extremists announced the so-called caliphate, attracting supporters from all over the world.
In the following years, they claimed attacks all over the world killing and wounding hundreds of people before they were attacked from different quarters. In March 2019, US-backed Syrian fighters seized the last sliver of land once held by extremists in the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor, on the border with Iraq.
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