Who was ISIS chief Abu Ibrahim al Qurayshi, Killed in US Raid?

Ground Report | New Delhi: Who was ISIS chief Abu Ibrahim; US special forces conducted a helicopter raid on Thursday (February 3) to hide Islamic State (ISIS) leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a residential building in a village in northern Syria. bar practice.

But before the army could reach them in a military operation, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, also known as Emir Muhammad Saeed Abdul Rahman al-Mula, detonated a suicide bomb, leaving his body and body intact. Other parts of the body were scattered outside the building.

President Joe Biden, who oversaw the military operation from the White House exchange room, called the suicide of Abu Ibrahim al-Qureshi "the ultimate act of desperate cowardice."

The bombers attacked a mosque in Baghdad shortly afternoon, killing at least two people and injuring dozens of others.

The incidents came as a shock to residents of Atma village in the Syrian province of Idlib, where the military operation took place, as US forces in helicopters tried to evacuate civilians from the building and use loudspeakers. asked to leave.

Who was ISIS chief Abu Ibrahim

Qureshi was born in 1976 in Muhallabiya, a small town west of Mosul inhabited by Iraq's Turkmen minority, the son of a preacher who led Muslim Friday prayers at a mosque in a nearby town. did.

According to Kilani, Qureshi joined the jihadist insurgency against the US occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2004, and eventually worked his way up the ranks of the Islamic State. Iraqi security officials say he has served in Saddam's army in the past.

Several insurgents took up arms against US troops after Washington's representative in Iraq ordered the disbanding and blacklisting of the Iraqi military.
Thousands of commanders associated with Saddam's Ba'ath Party. Iraqi security officials said Qureshi had fled across the border to Syria when the group was driven out in 2017 and had since been hiding in remote areas, trying to locate and revive Islamic State. Was walking here and there.

Killed in US raid

U.S. Gen. Frank McKenzie, who oversees U.S. forces in the region and was providing updates to Biden, said U.S. troops asked six civilians, including four children, to leave the first floor of the building.

McKinsey said: "That explosion was more powerful than expected than a suicide jacket, which killed everyone on the third floor and actually threw many people out of the building." McKenzie added that al-Qurayshi, his wife and two children were killed in the incident. Another U.S. official later said that Qureshi's two wives and a child had been killed.

U.S. officials say al-Qurayshi's death is another blow to a group that once claimed a self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria and Iraq.

The planning for the operation began in early December when authorities became convinced that the ISIS leader was living in the building, officials said. A senior White House official said President Biden had received a detailed briefing on December 20 on options to capture al-Qurayshi alive.

An official said: "The operation was complicated by the fact that al-Qurayshi rarely left his residence on the third floor of the building and relied on couriers to communicate with the outside world."

In a 2018 interview with Saudi-owned al Arabiya, a senior ISIS detainee in Iraq, Ismail al-Athawi called Qureshi "the most prominent in the circle around Baghdadi". An internal ISIS document from 2018 repeatedly referred to Qureshi as Baghdadi's "deputy". He was killed in a similar operation in which Baghdadi was killed. And it is still unclear whether the operation will halt the group's resurgence or whether the cycle of extremist violence will continue unabated.

ISIS has not acknowledged his death and it is not yet clear who could replace him. Any inner circle of Baghdadi is still thought to be massive.

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