- A U.S. military raid in northwestern Syria led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi.
- As U.S. forces closed in, Quraishi triggered a suicide bomb, killing himself and his family.
- Quraishi replaced ISIS founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi after his death in 2019 under similar circumstances.
- U.S. officials claim Quraishi was directly overseeing ISIS operations in Syria and that this raid was something the group won’t be able to get over easily. Read More