Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi was killed by Turkish forces on Saturday, Turkey's President Erdogan says.
Turkish forces have killed the suspected leader of Islamic State in Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.Mr Erdogan told broadcaster TRT Turk the IS leader was "neutralised" in a Turkish MIT intelligence agency operation on Saturday.The BBC has been unable to independently verify President Erdogan's claim."We will continue our struggle with terrorist organisations without any discrimination," he added, providing no further details.
In February, then-IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi set off a blast killing himself and his family as US special forces rounded on his hideout after a gunfight. The US said he was killed in an operation by the rebel Free Syrian Army in south-west Syria in mid-October. The group was driven from its last piece of territory in 2019, but the UN warned in July that it remained a persistent threat.
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