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Abu Yusaf (born c. 1987) is a high-level security commander in ISIL. [1] According to an interview conducted with The Washington Post , Abu Yusaf is a nom-de-guerre of a 27-year-old European Islamist who joined ISIL in 2013.
Abu Obaida, also known as Abu Obeida, [222] a senior IS leader who was the chief of the Hisbah patrol in Raqqa, [223] and he was arrested on 18 August 2021 in Khalis, Iraq by Iraqi special intelligence. [224] Abu 'Uqayl from Singapore, also known as Megat Shahdan bin Abdul Samad (1978-2021), is an IS fighter who travelled to Syria. [225]
Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (Arabic: يعقوب بن إبراهيم الأنصاري, romanized: Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī), better known as Abu Yusuf (Arabic: أبو يوسف, romanized: Abū Yūsuf) (729–798) was a student of jurist Abu Hanifa [3] (d.767) who helped spread the influence of the Hanafi school of Islamic law through his writings and the government positions that ...
When he was announced as the successor of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, nothing was known about al-Qurashi other than the name he had been given by the Islamic State: Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. His Arabic onomastic or nisbah — al-Qurashi — suggested that he, like Baghdadi, claimed a lineage to Muhammad 's tribe of Quraysh , a ...
A caliph is the supreme religious and political leader of an Islamic state known as the caliphate. [1] [2] Caliphs (also known as 'Khalifas') led the Muslim Ummah as political successors to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [3] and widely-recognised caliphates have existed in various forms for most of Islamic history.
Abu Ayyub al-Masri (an Egyptian also known as Abu Hamza al-Muhajir [30]), was the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq from June 2006 until its dissolution in October 2006. [31] Weeks after the formation of ISI, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir gave bay'ah to Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and declared that AQI had ceased to exist, being entirely supplanted by the ISI.
The Khorasan group, sometimes known simply as Khorasan, was an alleged group of senior al-Qaeda members operating in Syria. [15] The group was reported to consist of a small number of fighters who are all on terrorist watchlists, and coordinated with al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda's official affiliate in Syria.
On 26 May, ISIS claimed responsibility for the bombings. ISIS released a statement on their Amaq news agency website that the perpetrators were ISIS soldiers. [33] On 28 May, the Head of the Sinargalih Village where one of the terrorist (Ahmad Sukri) reside confirmed that his body will not be buried in the village.