The new leader of the Islamic State, Abu Hasan al-Qurashi, has been detained in Istanbul. Photo: InternetPhoto: stringfixer.com High-ranking Turkish officials told Bloomberg that the new leader of ISIS was arrested during a special operation in Istanbul. According to the Turkish portal Oda TV, Turkish police discovered that the new leader of ISIS was in […]
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The new leader of the Islamic State, Abu Hasan al-Qurashi, has been detained in Istanbul.
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High-ranking Turkish officials told Bloomberg that the new leader of ISIS was arrested during a special operation in Istanbul.
According to the Turkish portal Oda TV, Turkish police discovered that the new leader of ISIS was in Istanbul and monitored the location where he lived for several days. The international operation to capture al-Qurashi was carried out by the Istanbul intelligence and counter-terrorism units.
After the arrest of the ISIS leader, experts from the anti-terrorism service and the national intelligence organization interrogated him. According to the publication, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will provide details of the operation in the coming days.
Abu Hamza al-Qurashi was the official media representative of the Islamic State and the presumed new leader of the ISIS group. After the release of a video message regarding the death of the previous leader of the militants, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, he called on all supporters of the group to pledge allegiance to the new caliph and promised to avenge the United States for the elimination of the group’s leader.
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