The leader of the Islamic State was potentially killed in a US airstrike in Somalia.
A US airstrike in Somalia last month may have cost the life of Islamic State (IS) leader Abdulqadir Mumin, NBC news reported on Saturday. Anonymous sources told the American television channel that Abdulqadir Mumin was the target of the operation.
At the end of May, the United States had already announced this bombing, indicating in a press release that three IS fighters had been killed, without providing details on the main target. Now, anonymous sources tell NBC that the objective of this attack was to neutralize Mr. Mumin, already identified by the United States as the leader of the Somali branch of ISIS.
According to NBC, the latter became the global leader of the terrorist organization last year, succeeding his predecessor who was killed in Syria in 2022.
ISIS, which had conquered vast territories in Iraq and Syria around ten years ago, saw its self-proclaimed “caliphate” collapse in 2017 under the blows of an international coalition. However, the terrorist group reportedly maintains thousands of fighters across the world.
The Somali branch, considered relatively small, is said to have between 100 and 200 armed fighters, according to an American source within the Department of Defense.
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