ISIS Leader Abu Khadija Killed In The Hands Of Iraqi Troops
JAKARTA - ISIS leaders in Iraq and Syria are claimed dead. Iraqi Prime Minister calls it one of the most dangerous terrorists in Iraq and the world.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rufay'i, also known as Abu Khadija, was killed by Iraqi security forces, with the support of a US-led coalition fighting ISIS.
ISIS has implemented Islamic hardline rules against millions of people in Syria and Iraq over the years, and is trying to bounce back in the Middle East, West, and Asia.
Former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared a caliphate in a quarter of Iraq and Syria in 2014 before he was killed in an attack by US special forces in northwestern Syria in 2019 when the group collapsed.
US Central Command said last July the group had been trying to "build again after several years of declining capabilities."
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The command based its assessment on ISIS claims that have launched 153 attacks in Iraq and Syria in the first half of 2024, a figure that would put the group "at speed to double the number of attacks" claimed the previous year.