ISIS leader killed in US raid had dark past but spent years under the radar
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ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in a US raid in the early hours of Thursday morning. He was an Iraqi religious scholar and was a driving force behind the group's brutal persecution of Yazidis.
Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi killed himself and his family after igniting a bomb at the beginning of the operation, according to a senior Pentagon official.
Qurayshi succeeded ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in 2019 after his demise. When Qurayshi took over the organization, the vast swathes of territory the group controlled -- an area larger than the size of the United Kingdom at its peak -- had largely vaporized. Observers dubbed him a Caliph without a Caliphate. Yet he sought to reinvigorate the organization.
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