Turkey’s military kills an IS commander

During an operation in Syria on Saturday, Turkish forces killed the commander of the Islamic State organization.

The IS leader, known by the codename Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi, was killed in a hit on Saturday, according to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who made this revelation in a television interview with TRT Turk.

Erdogan reportedly claimed that the Turkish intelligence agency, MIT, has been keeping tabs on him “for a long time.”

“We will continue our struggle against terrorist organizations without discriminating against any of them,” Erdogan said in the interview.

Along the Syrian border, Turkey has carried out various operations against IS and Kurdish groups, seizing or killing suspected militants.

Following a series of land incursions to push Kurdish groups away from the Turkish-Syrian border, the nation now controls sizable portions of territory in northern Syria.

After the militant group’s previous leader was assassinated in October, Abu Hussein al-Qurayshi was named as the new leader. An IS spokesman referred to him as “one of the veteran warriors and one of the loyal sons of the Islamic State.”

He assumed charge of IS at a time when the terrorist group had already lost control of the regions it had controlled in Syria and Iraq.

He had been attempting to resurge, nevertheless, using sleeper cells to launch fatal assaults in both nations.

US military conducted a mission in northwest Syria in October 2019 to find the Islamic State’s founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

A similar raid in February 2022 resulted in the death of his successor, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi.