US Kills ISIS’ Most Probable Successor to Leadership in Air Strike, Just Hours After Killing Leader
The spokesman of ISIS was killed on Sunday in northern Syria, a top Kurdish official said, hours after the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was announced dead.
Just one day after the United States allegedly killed ISIS's top leader, al-Baghdadi, on Saturday, his most likely successor, al-Muhajir, was also killed in an air-raid last night, according to Syrian Kurdish forces, American Military News reported.
Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, ISIS spokesman and most likely first in line to the succession of ISIS leadership, was killed while allegedly on a transport stashed away in an empty oil tanker in a convoy. The air-raid took out two trucks in Northern Syria near the city of Ayn al-Bayda near Jarablus. The United States and Kurdish intelligence services coordinated the assault on Sunday night.
Mazloum Abdi, the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, wrote on Twitter: "Following the previous ops, a senior assistant for al- Bagdadi is called Abu Hesen al Mouhjir was targeted in a village named Ein al Baat near Jaraboul city, the mission was conducted via direct coordination of SDF Intel & U.S. military as a part the ongoing ops to hunt ISIS leaders."
An areal picture taken on Oct. 28, 2019, shows vehicles near a destroyed truck at the spot where Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, the ISIS terrorist group's spokesman, was reportedly killed in a raid in the northern Syrian village of Ayn al-Bayda near Jarablus, on the western bank of the river Euphrates on the border with Turkey. Aref Tammawi/AFP/Getty Images
The killing was confirmed by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), stating the convoy exists of a truck and a tanker carrying a metal container.
It said al-Muhajir was among five ISIS members that were killed at the attack. Five bodies were found, including one in the tank, but they were too charred to make a positive identification.
According to The Times: A small truck and a larger tanker truck were targeted by an airstrike. Images supposedly from the scene show human remains scattered about and a charred body in a metal box.
The air-raid came one day later of the alleged killing of ISIS top-leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Saturday night, The Epoch Times reported.
Trump Confirms ISIS Leader al-Baghdadi Killed in US Raid: ‘He Died Like a Coward’
President Donald Trump confirmed the death of ISIS terrorist leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an overnight raid in northern Syria.
“Last night the United States brought the world's No. 1 terrorist to justice," Trump said in a press conference on Sunday morning. "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He was the founder and leader of ISIS."
He said that his death was among the top priorities of his administration, adding that “I got to watch much of it.”
Al-Baghdadi died after “running into a dead-end tunnel” and was "whimpering" and “crying all the way," Trump remarked.
A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the extremist group ISIS Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has made what would be his first public appearance at a mosque in the centre of Iraq's second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted on the Internet on July 5, 2014, in this still image taken from video. Social Media Website via Reuters TV/File Photo
In the incident, Trump said that three of his young children were brought with him into the tunnel before he detonated a suicide vest, killing himself and the three children.
“It was him,” he said, confirming the terror leader’s death. “He spent his last moments in utter fear, in total panic in dread,” Trump said.
The Associated Press and Epoch Times reporter Jack Phillips contributed to this report
