{"id":1804,"date":"2022-12-01T10:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2022-12-01T10:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T10:05:26","slug":"isis-extremist-group-confirms-death-of-leader-in-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/01\/isis-extremist-group-confirms-death-of-leader-in-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS extremist group confirms death of leader in battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ISIS extremist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement.<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-4000045409\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>A spokesman for the group said Hashimi, an Iraqi, was killed \u201cin combat with enemies of God\u201d, without elaborating on the date of his death or the circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an audio message, the spokesman identified the group&#8217;s new leader as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.<\/p>\n<p>Qurashi refers to a tribe of the Prophet Mohammed, from whom ISIS leaders must claim descent.<\/p>\n<p>After a meteoric rise in Iraq and Syria in 2014 that saw it conquer vast swathes of territory, ISIS saw its self-proclaimed \u201ccaliphate\u201d collapse under a wave of offensives.<\/p>\n<p>It was defeated in Iraq in 2017 and in Syria two years later, but sleeper cells of the Sunni Muslim extremist group still carry out attacks in both countries and claim attacks elsewhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p>ISIS&#8217;s previous leader, Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi, was killed earlier this year in a US raid in Idlib province in northern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>His predecessor Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed, also in Idlib, in October 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ISIS extremist group said Wednesday that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle and announced a replacement. 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