Then the Russian Defense Ministry said it had killed Al-Adnani with an airstrike conducted by a Su-24 bomber that targeted a group of 40 militants.
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Both Russia and the USA on Wednesday claimed credit of killing of Islamic State (IS) spokesperson and top strategist Abu Mohamed al-Adnani in Syria.
According to Amaq, al-Adnani was killed “while surveying the operations to repel the military campaigns against Aleppo”.
Al Adnani was the extremist group’s propaganda chief, top recruiter and the reported mastermind of a string of ISIL-claimed attacks in the West.
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In a statement announcing his death, IS described al-Adnani as a descendent of the Prophet Muhammad’s family and tribe, attributes also used to describe al-Baghdadi.
“Al-Adnani has served as principal architect of ISIL’s external operations and as ISIL’s chief spokesman”. However, the official stopped short of confirming Adnani’s death.
He is believed to have carried out those orders as one of the ISIS leaders overseeing its security service, known as Amniyat, which includes the external operations unit tasked with worldwide attacks on the West.
“I think the United States are very close to killing Baghdadi the next time”, Hashimi said.
Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told the press on Wednesday that the Pentagon has “no information to support Russia’s claim that it carried out a strike against Adnani”.
A Syrian national born Taha Sobhi Falaha, al-Adnani was a core member of ISIS, considered by some as second only to leader Abu Bakir al-Baghdadi.
Adnani has been the voice of ISIL, also known as ISIS, over the past few years, and has released numerous, lengthy audio files online in which he urged followers to carry out attacks.
Experts have warned of a possible increase in jihadist attacks in the West as IS faces growing pressure in Syria, where U.S. officials estimate the group has lost 20 percent of the territory it once held, and in Iraq, where it has lost about 50 percent.
“It would be amusing if not for the character of the campaign the Russians have undertaken in Syria”.
“In some ways he’s a more unsafe figure than Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, because he’s believed to be overseeing the external operations division of ISIS, and that’s the part of ISIS which threatens the West, which carried out the attacks in Paris, which could one day carry out an attack in the USA on a significant scale”, Cruickshank said.
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A USA counter-terrorism official who monitors Daesh said Adnani ” s death would hurt the militants “in the area that increasingly concerns us as the group loses more and more of its caliphate and its financial base. and turns to mounting and inspiring more attacks in Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere”. “And at the same time, we have not seen the Russian military campaign use precision weaponry on a regular basis as well”, he said, using an alternate acronym for ISIS.
