Killed the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: Iraqi Prime Minister – National

Leader Islamic State in Iraq and Syria was killed, the Iraqi prime minister said on Friday, describing him as “one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.”

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Makki al-Rufay’i, also known as Abu Khadi, killed Iraqi security forces, with the support of the US-run coalition, fought against the Islamic State.

For years, the Islamic State has imposed a hard Islamist government over millions of people in Syria and Iraq, and is trying to return a return to the Middle East, West and Asia.

Former Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate more than a quarter of Iraq and Syria in 2014 before being killed in the attack of US special forces in northwestern Syria in 2019 while the group collapsed.

The US Central Command said last July that the group was trying to “renew after several years of reduced ability.”

The Command based its assessment on the claims of the Islamic State on the increase in 153 attacks in Iraq and Syria in the first half of 2024, a rate that would “put a group on the tempo more than twice as much than the number of attacks,” the year before.
–Reporting Nayer Abdallah in Dubai and Muayad Hameed Suadi in Baghdad; Additional Reporting Jana Choukeir, Writing Nayer Abdallah, Editing Alison Williams and Timothy Heritage