'New ISIS chief' is captured by Iraqi intelligence officers 'months after taking over from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi'
- Iraqi security forces said tonight they had captured Abdul Nasser Qirdash, according to the National Iraqi News Agency
- The quoted intelligence sources who said it was the new leader of ISIS
- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi 'died like a dog' during a US spec-ops raid in October 2019
- Jihadist who took over was said to be Muhammad al-Mawla, 'Abdullah Qardash'
- It is not clear whether the Iraqi special forces are claiming they have that man, or another who they believe to be the true leader of ISIS - now a riven force
The new ISIS leader has been arrested by Iraqi intelligence officers, according to local reports.
Abdul Nasser Qirdash, 'the candidate to succeed the terrorist Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi' was captured, according to the National Iraqi News Agency. It is unclear where or how the new caliph was detained.
A photograph obtained by a local journalist and posted online purports to show the jihadist, a veteran who had served 'since the days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.'
But aspersions have been cast on the claims of the Iraqi news agency, not least because the photo does not match with previous photos of Baghdadi's successor.
After Baghdadi's death it was reported that Muhammad al-Mawla, who also used the nom de guerre Abdullah Qardash and was nicknamed The Professor, was to take over as the caliph.
A photograph obtained by a local journalist and posted online purports to show the jihadist Abdul Nasser Qirdash
Caliphate leader: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi detonated his own suicide vest during the targeted raid on his lair in Syria's Idlib province and killed three of his children in the blast in October 2019. He is shown in a still from a video released in April, having not been seen since he spoke at the Grand Mosque in Mosul in 2014
The source told the Iraqi news agency: 'The terrorist (Qirdash) served as the head of the commission authorised by the terrorist organisation Daesh, and he worked with the organisation as a leader from the time of the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi until the battles of al-Baghouz that he led himself.'
After Baghdadi's death it was reported that Muhammad al-Mawla, who also used the nom de guerre Abdullah Qardash and was nicknamed The Professor, was to take over as the caliph
Baghdadi famously 'died like a dog,' as Donald Trump put it, when US forces stormed his compound in northwestern Syria in October 2019.
Baghdadi, who had steered ISIS's foul terror across the world, blew himself up with a suicide vest, along with three of his children, when he was cornered by special forces.
The man tipped to succeed him as Abdullah Qardash, a former officer in Saddam Hussein's military who was in charge of 'Muslim Affairs' under Baghdadi's reign.
However, it is not even clear that Qardash did take over as leader because the group became fractured after it was routed at its final stronghold at Baghouz.
It could be that the man captured is another leader of ISIS.
The Iraqi security forces are nor reliable sources of information and so the information must be viewed with ample circumspection.
The rise and fall of the Islamic State
The Islamic State group erupted from the chaos of Syria and Iraq's conflicts, declaring itself a 'caliphate' after conquering a giant stretch of territory.
Its territorial rule, which at its height in 2014 stretched across nearly a third of both Syria and Iraq, ended in March with a last stand by several hundred of its militants at a tiny Syrian village on the banks of the Euphrates near the border with Iraq.
But the militants have maintained a presence in both countries, and their shadowy leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had continued releasing messages urging them to keep up the fight.
Here are the key moments in the rise and fall of the Islamic State group:
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi - who was also known as Caliph Ibrahim - released a propaganda video in 2014 where he addressed Muslim worshipers at a mosque in Mosul
April 2013 - Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announces the merger of his group with al-Qaeda's franchise in Syria, forming the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
January 2014 - Al-Baghdadi's forces overrun the city of Fallujah in Iraq's western Anbar province and parts of the nearby provincial capital of Ramadi. In Syria, they seize sole control of the city of Raqqa after driving out rival Syrian rebel factions, and it becomes their de facto capital.
February 2014 - Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri disavows al-Baghdadi after the Iraqi militant ignores his demands that IS leave Syria.
June 2014 - IS captures Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city, and pushes south as Iraqi forces crumble, eventually capturing Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit and reaching the outskirts of Baghdad. When they threaten Shiite holy sites, Iraq's top Shiite cleric issues a call to arms, and masses of volunteers, largely backed and armed by Iran, join militias.
June 29, 2014 - The group renames itself the Islamic State and declares the establishment of a self-styled 'caliphate' in its territories in Iraq and Syria. Al-Baghdadi is declared the caliph.
July 4, 2014 - Al-Baghdadi makes his first public appearance, delivering a Friday sermon in Mosul's historic al-Nuri Mosque. He urges Muslims around the world to swear allegiance to the caliphate and obey him as its leader.
August 2014 - IS captures the town of Sinjar west of Mosul and begins a systematic slaughter of the tiny Yazidi religious community. Women and girls are kidnapped as sex slaves; hundreds remain missing to this day.
August 8, 2014 - The U.S. launches its campaign of airstrikes against IS in Iraq.
September 22, 2014 - The U.S.-led coalition begins an aerial campaign against IS in Syria.
January, 2015 - Iraqi Kurdish fighters, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, drive IS out of several towns north of Mosul. In Syria, Kurdish fighters backed by U.S. airstrikes repel an IS onslaught on the town of Kobani on the border with Turkey, the first significant defeat for IS.
April 1, 2015 - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces retake Tikrit, their first major victory against IS.
May 20, 2015 - IS captures the ancient Syrian town of Palmyra, where the extremists later destroy archaeological treasures.
February 9, 2016 - Iraqi forces recapture Ramadi after months of fighting and at enormous cost, with thousands of buildings destroyed. Almost the entire population fled the city.
June 26, 2016 - Fallujah is declared liberated by Iraqi forces after a five-week battle.
July 3, 2016 - IS sets off a gigantic suicide truck bomb outside a Baghdad shopping mall, killing almost 300 people, the deadliest attack in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
October 17, 2016 - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi announces the start of the operation to liberate Mosul.
Iraqi Army soldiers celebrate as they hold an IS flag, which they captured during a raid on a village outside Mosul in November 2016
November 5, 2016 - The U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces launch Operation Euphrates Wrath, the first of five operations aiming to retake Raqqa, starting with an encircling of the city.
January 24, 2017 - Al-Abadi announces eastern Mosul has been 'fully liberated'.
May 10, 2017 - SDF captures the strategic Tabqa dam after weeks of battles and a major airlift operation that brought SDF fighters and their U.S. advisers to the area. The fall of the dam facilitated the push on Raqqa, about 25 miles away.
June 6, 2017 - SDF fighters begin an attack on Raqqa from three sides, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes.
June 18, 2017 - Iraqi forces launch battle for Mosul's Old City, the last IS stronghold there.
June 21, 2017 - IS destroys Mosul's iconic al-Nuri Mosque and its 12th century leaning minaret as Iraqi forces close in.
July 10, 2017 - Iraqi PM declares victory over IS in Mosul and end of the extremists' caliphate in Iraq.
October 17, 2017 - SDF takes full control of Raqqa after months of heavy bombardment that devastates the city.
September - December, 2017 - Syrian government forces, backed by Russian air power and Iranian forces, recapture IS territory on the western bank of the Euphrates River, seizing the cities of Deir el-Zour, Mayadin and Boukamal on the border with Iraq.
Isis lost its hold over Mosul in July 2017 but the city suffered severe bombing
August 23, 2018 - IS leader al-Baghdadi resurfaces in his first purported audio recording in almost a year; he urges followers to 'persevere' and continue fighting.
September 10, 2018 - SDF launches a ground offensive, backed by U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, to take the last territory held by IS in Syria's eastern province of Deir el-Zour.
March 23, 2019 - SDF declares the complete capture of Baghouz and the end of the Islamic State group's territorial 'caliphate'.
October 27, 2019 - President Donald Trump announced that al-Baghdadi was killed during a US. Special Ops forces raid on his hideout in northwest Syria. Trump said the 'violent terror leader' died after running into a dead-end tunnel, and detonating his suicide vest, killing himself and three of his children.
- Source: Associated Press
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