DAESH NAMES BAGHDADI’S BRO AS NEW CALIPH

Fri 11 March 2022:

The new leader of Daesh, whose appointment the group announced yesterday, is the brother of slain former caliph Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, according to two Iraqi security officials and one Western security source, Reuters reports.

Islamic State named its new leader Abu Al-Hassan Al-Hashemi al-Quraishi in a recorded audio message distributed online.

The announcement came weeks after the death last month of Abu Ibrahim Al-Quraishi, the man who in turn succeeded Al-Baghdadi in 2019 and became the group’s second so-called caliph. Both Al-Baghdadi and Al-Quraishi died by blowing themselves and family members up during US raids on their hideouts in northern Syria.

Daesh has its roots in an insurgency against US forces after they invaded Iraq and toppled Sunni Muslim dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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