{"id":12789,"date":"2022-12-01T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=12789"},"modified":"2022-12-01T11:33:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T11:33:42","slug":"isis-annoucnes-killing-of-its-leader-al-qurashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2022\/12\/isis-annoucnes-killing-of-its-leader-al-qurashi\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIS annoucnes killing of its leader al-Qurashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The ISIL (ISIS) armed group has announced that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the group said on Wednesday that Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, an Iraqi, died \u201cin combat\u201d, without elaborating on the date or circumstances of his death. The spokesman, Abu Omar al-Muhajer, named its new leader as Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi.<\/p>\n<p>The United States military\u2019s CENTCOM said Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi had been killed in mid-October.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis operation was conducted by The Free Syrian Army in Dar\u2019a [Deraa] province in Syria. ISIS remains a threat to the region. CENTCOM and our partners remain focused on the enduring defeat of ISIS,\u201d CENTCOM spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian fighters involved in the clash told Reuters that Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi had blown himself up after he and his aides were surrounded by local fighters in the town of Jasem.<\/p>\n<p>Quraishi and his aides had been discovered in a secret hideout in a house, said the sources, who included FSA fighters, relatives of comrades who died in the clash and residents of Jasem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leader and a companion blew themselves up with suicide belts after our fighters succeeded in storming their hideout,\u201d said Salem al Horani, a resident of Jasem and former fighter who participated in the siege of the three houses where the ISIL cell was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Deraa is currently under the control of the Syrian government, after a reconciliation deal in 2018 with opposition forces in the area that allowed them to keep light weapons.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; The ISIL (ISIS) armed group has announced that its leader Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been killed in battle. A spokesman for the group said on Wednesday that Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, an Iraqi, died \u201cin combat\u201d, without elaborating on the date or circumstances of his death. The spokesman, Abu Omar al-Muhajer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,978,194],"tags":[187,236,688,689],"class_list":["post-12789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-security","category-world","tag-us","tag-isis","tag-iraq","tag-syria"],"views":186,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12791,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12789\/revisions\/12791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}