US kills Islamic State leader

President Biden has announced that the leader of the Islamic State group Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, has been killed in an attack by US special forces carried in the Syrian province of Idlib. We find our more about al-Qurayshi, and the significance of his death from our Jihadi specialist at BBC Monitoring.

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(Photo: A damaged house is seen after an alleged counterterrorism operation by US Special forces in the early morning in Atma village in the northern countryside of Idlib, Syria, 03 February 2022. Credit: EPA/YAHYA NEMAH)