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3 December 2022

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Syria debunks US claims on ISIS ringleader killing

Syria has challenged the US version of events concerning the killing of the ringleader of the ISIS ringleader on Wednesday.

AhlulBayt News Agency: Syria has challenged the US version of events concerning the killing of the ringleader of the ISIS ringleader on Wednesday.

ISIS, also known as Daesh, is a militant terrorist group and formerly unrecognized quasi-state, founded by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1999 and gained global prominence in 2014.

Syrian state media challenged the US version of events concerning the killing of Abu al-Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi.

Damascus argued that it was the Syrian government army that liquidated him and not the Syrian opposition (FSA) alongside the US military, as Washington claimed.

Moreover, according to some Arabic media Abu al-Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurash and Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, known as Saif Baghdad are the same person. According to the Syrian state media, the latter was eliminated during the security operation carried out by the Syrian Arab Forces, in cooperation with civil groups from Daraa, against Daesh in the northern neighborhood of Jasim city on October 15, 2022.

The US CENTCOM, however, claimed that the operation was carried out by the Syrian Free Army (SFA) in Deraa province in southern Syria. It should be noted that the Syrian Free Army operates mainly in northern Syria, and includes numerous groups of the Syrian opposition.

It's reported that Abu al-Hussein al-Qurashi became the new ringleader of Daesh after the death of Abu al-Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi. He is allegedly responsible for the operations which were conducted in the northern region of Daraa and supervised Daesh’s extension to Jordanian, Iraqi and Syrian lands.

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