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ISIS Spokesman Killed in Separate US Raid

By    |   Sunday, 27 October 2019 08:45 PM EDT

Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, spokesman of the Islamic State, was reportedly killed in a raid by U.S. special forces in northwest Syria a day after fugitive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in a separate U.S. attack, The New York Times reports.

Al-Muhajir, who was considered al-Baghdadi’s likely successor, was promoted to be ISIS’ spokesman in 2016 after Abu Mohammed al-Adnani was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Aleppo. The CIA targeted him one day after a raid targeted al-Baghdadi in the Idlib province of Syria.

Al-Muhajir was killed in Ayn al-Bayda, near Jarablus in Aleppo province.

Baghdadi killed himself during the raid by detonating a suicide vest after fleeing into a dead-end tunnel, President Donald Trump said Sunday in a televised address from the White House.

ISIS has been in disarray and has no declared successor as leader yet.

Mazlum Abdi, the head of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Fighters (SDF), wrote on Twitter that al-Muhajir had been killed in an operation coordinated between his forces and the United States.

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Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, spokesman of the Islamic State, was reportedly killed in a raid by U.S. special forces in northwest Syria a day after fugitive Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died in a separate U.S. attack, The New York Times reports.Al-Muhajir, who was...
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