For a long time before launching their operation Turkish intelligence had been monitoring the alleged....
The suspected leader of the ISIL (ISIS) group, Abu al-Hussein al-Qurashi have killed by Turkish intelligence forces, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced.
For a long time before launching their operation Turkish intelligence had been monitoring the alleged leader, Erdogan said.
The President added, "we will continue our struggle against terrorist organisations without any discrimination".
The raid took place near the northern Syria town of Jinderes, Syrian local and security sources said, which is controlled by Turkey-backed rebel groups and was among the worst-affected areas in the February 6 earthquake that hit both Turkey and Syria.
From ISIL(ISI) there has been no announcement. The Syrian National Army, an opposition faction with a security presence in the area, did not issue immediately any comment.
In November 2022 Al-Qurashi became ISIL(ISI) leader after his predecessor killed.
The ISIL (ISIS) group took over vast swathes of Iraq and Syria in 2014, and its head at the time, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared an Islamic caliphate across an area that was home to millions of people.
But the group lost its grip on the territory after campaigns by US-backed forces in Syria and Iraq, as well as Syrian forces backed by Iran, Russia and various paramilitaries.
Its remaining fighters are now mostly hiding in remote areas of Syria and Iraq, and still launch attacks from time to time.
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