Daesh Top Spokesman ‘Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’ Killed In Aleppo
MEP: The top spokesman of the Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) terrorist group Abu Mohamed al-Adnani has been killed in Aleppo province of Syria, IS-affiliated media say.
In a statement released on terror group media sites, said Adnani was “killed while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo”. The message, however, provided no details on whether he was killed in an air strike or ground attack.
Meanwhile, a US military official was also quoted by Reuters as saying that Adnani was the target of a US strike in the town of al-Bab, but refrained from confirming the terrorist’s death.
Reports of his death come as Daesh is suffering a series of military reverses in both Syria and Iraq.
Al-Adnani, a Syrian citizen in his late 30s, had a $5 million US Department of State bounty on his head – the second biggest for any Daesh official after the movement’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
BREAKING: #ISIS 'Amaq reported that ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-'Adnani was killed in #Aleppo pic.twitter.com/br7YslGPPL
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“He is heavily involved in external operations. He is sort of the administrative ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ at the top of the pyramid,” Thomas Joscelyn, from the Washington DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the New York Times earlier this month.
Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Syria.
