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Islamic State group announces death of leader in Syria clashes
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A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an ISIS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. (AP/Hussein Malla, File)
The Islamic State group announces the death of its leader Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, who it says was killed in clashes in northwestern Syria.
Qurashi “was killed after direct clashes” with jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham in Idlib province, an IS spokesman says in a recorded message on its channels on the Telegram messaging app, without specifying when he was killed.
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