BREAKING: #ISIS Leader Killed [PHOTO]—According to dailymail.co.uk report, The suspected leader of ISIS has been killed in an operation carried out by Turkish forces in northern Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday.
‘The suspected leader of Daesh, codename Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has been neutralised in an operation carried out yesterday (Saturday) by the MIT in Syria,’ he announced on television.
Local outlets said Turkish intelligence agents and local military police, backed by Turkey, had on Saturday sealed off a zone in Jindires, in the northwest region of Afrine, about four miles from the Turkish border.
Al-Qurashi’s predecessor, Abu al-Hasan al-Hashmi al-Qurayshi, was killed last November.
Residents said an operation had targeted an abandoned farm that was being used as an Islamic school.
Turkey’s national intelligence organisation, MIT, launched the operation at around 1am on Saturday and reportedly breached the house, clashing with ISIS fighters.
Erdogan said that Turkish intelligence had ‘been tracking the so-called leader of Daesh, Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, for a long time’.
The United States carried out a helicopter raid in northern Syria in an operation in mid-April, saying the Islamic State group had been planning attacks in Europe and the Middle East.
US Central Command said they had killed a senior leader of the IS group in the operation.
Despite having been driven out of much of the territory it once controlled, the Islamic State group still launches attacks in Syria.
Al-Qurashi had become ISIS’s fourth leader in only November, after Abu al-Hasan al-Hashmi al-Qurayshi was killed while fighting in Syria.
