Death of IS chief Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi: What we know
India Today
Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi was killed in the town of Atme during a nighttime airborne operation on his house on Thursday. Here's all we know about his death so far.
A day after the death of Islamic State leader Abu Ibrahim al-Qurashi during a US raid in Syria, many questions remain on the operation and the jihadist group's future.
How was he located?
Qurashi was killed in the town of Atme during a nighttime airborne operation on his house.
US officials said his location had been narrowed down last year. The building's owner told AFP Qurashi had been living there for 11 months.The raid came days after IS launched its biggest operation in years to spring fighters from a huge Kurdish-run prison in the northeastern city of Hasakeh.
"The timing of the operation suggests that there was intelligence linking Qurashi to the Ghwayran prison attack," said Nick Heras, an analyst at the Newlines Institute.
"It would not be surprising that the US put pressure on Turkey to relinquish information."
Turkey holds considerable sway over northwestern Syria and maintains a form of working relationship with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the jihadist that controls most of the Idlib area.
