The Islamic State group, defeated in Iraq and Syria, announced on Wednesday November 30 the death of its leader, the Iraqi Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, specifying that he had been killed “by fighting the enemies of God”. The US Middle East military command (Centcom) said Abu Hassan al-Hachimi al-Qurachi was killed in mid-October in southern Syria’s Daraa province by ISIS rebels. Free Syrian Army. “The death of Abu Hassan al-Hachimi al-Qurachi is a new blow for IS”added the Centcom.
In an audio message, the spokesperson for the jihadist group announced that a new “caliph of Muslims”, Abu Al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, had been appointed. Al-Qurashi refers to the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad, from whom the self-proclaimed “caliph” must be a descendant.