(Zaman Al Wasl)- A US-led airstrike killed first aide of Abu Baker al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State, the group’s news feeds said Thursday.
Ben Ali was also known as Abu Sufyan al-Selmi and Abu Humama al-Athari, according to the leaked ISIS data which obtained by Zaman al-Wasl.
Turkey Ben Ali, 32-year-old, left teaching in Bahrain to Join the radical group and to promoted to be in the first rank of al-Baghdadi advisors. Benali was the ISIS Emir in Libya begor moving to Syria, according to the documents.
His brother and the ex-fellow in ISIS, Ali, was also killed in June 2016 in Syria. Turkey and his two brothers were stripped from the Bahraini citizenship in 2015.
Islamic State often claims responsibility for attacks worldwide through Amaq channels on social media.
Islamic State militants control swathes of Syria's vast eastern deserts and most of Deir al-Zor province bordering Iraq, but they have been on the back foot over the past year.
With air strikes and special forces on the ground, the U.S.-led coalition is supporting an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in a campaign to capture Raqqa city. (With Reuters)
Ben Ali was also known as Abu Sufyan al-Selmi and Abu Humama al-Athari, according to the leaked ISIS data which obtained by Zaman al-Wasl.
Turkey Ben Ali, 32-year-old, left teaching in Bahrain to Join the radical group and to promoted to be in the first rank of al-Baghdadi advisors. Benali was the ISIS Emir in Libya begor moving to Syria, according to the documents.
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His brother and the ex-fellow in ISIS, Ali, was also killed in June 2016 in Syria. Turkey and his two brothers were stripped from the Bahraini citizenship in 2015.
Islamic State often claims responsibility for attacks worldwide through Amaq channels on social media.
Islamic State militants control swathes of Syria's vast eastern deserts and most of Deir al-Zor province bordering Iraq, but they have been on the back foot over the past year.
With air strikes and special forces on the ground, the U.S.-led coalition is supporting an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias in a campaign to capture Raqqa city. (With Reuters)
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