DAMASCUS: Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, the head of the terrorist organization ISIS, was killed. It was an ISIS spokesperson who announced this through Telegram the other day. Qurashi was killed during direct clashes with the local armed group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. It is not clear when Qurashi was killed.

At the same time, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had claimed that Husseini al-Qurashi was killed by Turkish intelligence forces in Syria in April.

Following the news of Al-Qurashi's death, ISIS released the name of its new chief. The new chief is Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. He is the fifth chief of ISIS.