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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 ...
Abu al-Hussein was announced as the new leader of Islamic State by Abu Omar al-Muhajir, in the same audio that confirmed Abu al-Hasan's death. [10] The Islamic State announced on August 3, 2023 that Abu al-Hussein was killed by Tahrir al-Sham militants in Idlib province. [11] 5 Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi. ابو حفص الهاشمي ...
Kamleh appeared in another video in 2017 with a long beard, a bulletproof vest on and an AK-47, fighting for the ISIS cause. [13] After joining the organization, Kamleh used the name Abu Yosef Al-Australie, aka Abu Yusuf. This name change was of cultural significance to Tareq Kamleh, protesting his Australian citizenship whilst converting to ...
The parallel use of both ISIS and ISIL as acronym originated from uncertainty in how to translate the Arabic word "ash-Shām" (or "al-Sham") in the group's April 2013 name, which can be translated variously as "the Levant", "Greater Syria", "Syria" or even "Damascus". This led to the widely used translations of "Islamic State in Iraq and the ...
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 ...
Amaq News Agency, which is linked to the Islamic State (ISIS), said the shooter was an ISIS fighter, giving his pseudonym as Abu Yusuf al-Beljiki. [16] [30] The claim suggested the attacker was from Belgium. [14] News outlets commented that the timing of the claim was "unusually swift".