During a gunfight with the HTS Group in Syria, the fourth leader of ISIS Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi got killed.
On Thursday the worldwide terrorist organization Islamic State’s leader confirmed that their leader Abu Husayni Al Qureshi was assassinated during a gunfight encounter. The news is officially confirmed by the ISIS group and ISIS announced Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as his replacement. The death of Abu Husayni Al Qureshi was publicized by the group’s spokesman in an undated recording post on its Telegram channel.
According to reports, in Syria’s northwest area, Abu Husayni Al Qureshi was slain in a direct gunfight with the Hayat Tahir Al-Sham group. In 2004 after his predecessor was killed in Syria, Abu Hussein al-Husseini al-Quraishi took over in November 2022.
Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said in April that Turkish intelligence had killed him in Syria, and this is the terrorist group’s first official announcement since then. Erdogan stated that the Turkish national intelligence organization had been looking for Quraishi for a long time. In the announcement of the ISIS group, they didn’t mention the time of death of Abu Husayni.
In the recording post of ISIS, the spokesman says Qureshi that during the gunfight with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) was killed, the dominant Islamist group that controls the remaining opposition stronghold in northwest Syria. In the audio the spokesman said “The Sheikh (Quraishi), may God have mercy on him, was killed after they (HTS) tried to take him captive. He clashed with them with his arms until he died of his wounds,” accusing the opposing Islamist group of functioning as operatives of Turkish intelligence.
