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ISIS says its spokesman Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani killed in Aleppo ISIS says top-tier leader Abu Mohammed al-Adnani killed in Aleppo
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DETAILS TO FOLLOW Abu Mohammed al-Adnani, Islamic State spokesman and its leader in Syria, has been killed in Aleppo province, according to ISIS’ own news agency Amaq.
One of the longest-serving Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL) figureheads, al-Adnani was reportedly killed “while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo.” The Syrian city is in the midst of a multiple-way battle between the Syrian government, assorted militants and Islamic State.
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 IS official after the movement’s leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Known for his aggressive, florid speaking style, al-Adnani sought to inspire recruits and lone wolf attackers in the West, and his calls to arms were often cited by ISIS adepts. Western media also reported that he was the head of a special intelligence unit, responsible for planning complex terrorist attacks in Europe.
There were earlier reports that al-Adnani had been injured in an air strike in Iraq in January this year.
According to SITE Intel Group, which specializes in the inner workings of jihadi organizations, ISIS threatened revenge for the death, at the hands of a new generation of Islamists who have been born in the current conflict zone, who “love death more than life.”
But for all the public fury, the death is likely to be a major blow to the retreating Islamic State, which also lost its top military commander Abu Omar al-Shishani – known as Omar the Chechen – earlier this summer.