{"id":974888,"date":"2022-02-03T14:59:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/isis-chief-al-qurayshi-killed-in-counterterrorism-operation-in-syria\/"},"modified":"2022-02-03T14:59:28","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T14:59:28","slug":"isis-chief-al-qurayshi-killed-in-counterterrorism-operation-in-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/03\/isis-chief-al-qurayshi-killed-in-counterterrorism-operation-in-syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Isis chief al-Qurayshi killed in counterterrorism operation in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Washington – The US on Thursday announced the killing of Isis chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a counterterrorism operation in north-west Syria.<\/p>\n

“Last night at my direction, US military forces in north-west Syria successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation to protect the American people and our allies, and make the world a safer place,” the White House said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“Thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we have taken off the battlefield Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi \u2013 the leader of Isis. All Americans have returned safely from the operation,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

The White House said Biden will deliver remarks to the American people later on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Chief of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis), al-Qurayshi was imprisoned in the US-run Camp Bucca in Iraq starting in 2004, according to US media reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Reports said he was active in IS\u2019s predecessor organisation and eventually became one of former IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi\u2019s most trusted deputies.<\/p>\n

Al-Qurayshi is also seen as the architect behind IS\u2019s killing of the Yazidi religious minority and oversaw the terror group’s global operations.<\/p>\n

The slain Isis chief is also credited for preventing the fall of terror organisations following Baghdadi’s death in a US operation in October 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The US had offered a reward of millions of dollars for information leading to al-Qurayshi’s capture. <\/p>\n

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Washington – The US on Thursday announced the killing of Isis chief Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi in a counterterrorism operation in north-west Syria. “Last night at my direction, US military forces in north-west Syria successfully undertook a counterterrorism operation to protect the American people and our allies, and make the world a safer place,” the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":974889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-974888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}