IS spokesperson and its senior leader Sheikh Abu Muhammad al-Adnani.
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Quoting a “military source”, the group’s Amaq News Agency reported the jihadi was killed “while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo”.
The spokesman for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) armed group, Abu Mohamed al-Adnani, has been killed in Syrian province of Aleppo, according to an ISIL-linked website.
The 37-year-old Syrian, who was ISIS’ director of external operations, is best known for issuing an edict to kill Westerners in September 2014.
However, the particulars of the terror chief’s death are not yet clear.
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The terror group has faced defeat in several regions in Syria, including the northern Aleppo province, where President Bashar Assad’s forces, backed by Russian Federation, are fighting rebel groups. He also reportedly was captured in 2005 and taken into custody at a camp run by the US military, but was released after five years in 2010.
