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Bilal al-Sudani, also known as Suhayl Salim Abd el-Rahman (died 25 January 2023) was a member of the al-Shabaab insurgency and later a member of Islamic State in Somalia.. Al-Sudani was designated a terrorist by the U.S. in 2012 for his work in helping to finance foreigners traveling to al-Shabaab training camps.
The U.S. military targeted the global leader of ISIS in an airstrike in Somalia late last month but cannot confirm whether he was killed, three U.S. officials say.. The U.S. government has ...
On October 26, 2016, fighters aligned with the Islamic State (ISIS) captured the small port town of Qandala in Puntland's Bari region.This was the first town ISIS had taken control of in Somalia, the first notable expansion of their influence beyond their usual mountainous hideouts.
On Wednesday night a U.S. military operation in northern Somalia killed a senior ISIS leader and 10 other ISIS fighters, according to two senior U.S. officials.
It has occasionally highlighted its “healthcare services” in the remote villages in Puntland in its propaganda videos, showing a Somali-Canadian doctor named “Yusuf al-Majerteeni”, who died in 2018. [65] [66] By November 2019, ISS controlled the villages of Dasaan and Shebaab in Bari region. [67] The group is known to use caves as ...
The president announced Thursday that Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi killed himself and members of his family during an overnight raid carried out by U.S. military forces in northwest Syria.
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 ...
The US Central Command announced on Sunday that they conducted a strike on July 7 that killed Usamah al-Muhajir, an ISIS leader in Eastern Syria, according to a statement. "The strike on Friday ...