ISIS acknowledged that one of its branch leaders in Afghanistan’s “Khorasan Province” had been killed during recent combat with Taliban forces and threatened to continue attacking the Afghan organisation.
As part of his specialisation tab for the biographies of the murdered organisation leaders, the weekly newspaper Al-Naba, published by the ISIS Central Media Bureau (359), reported on the death of “Abu Ibrahim Al-Khorasani,” also known as Abdul Rahman Al-Khorasani, one of ISIS leaders in Afghanistan. It explained that he was killed during a raiding operation For the Taliban group forces, as they clashed with them while they were inscribing a house in which
The newspaper claims that one of ISIS’s legal commanders and one of the first to swear allegiance to the group upon the declaration of the territorial caliphate in 2014, “Al-Khorasani,” is descended from western Afghanistan.
Before the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani was detained and imprisoned in “Jalababad” prison in the Afghan province of Nangarhar. He managed to escape after ISIS stormed the prison in early August 2020, but was quickly apprehended and imprisoned once more in Baljarkhi prison in Kabul. Abu Ibrahim al-Khorasani spent two years in the prisons of the Afghan Taliban group before being released just before his death.
In addition to working in the Military Manufacturing Department, where he specialised in explosives and explosive devices, Abu Ibrahim Al-Khorasani held several leadership positions within the province of Khorasan Al-Daesha. He also taught in the legal programmes, the media bureau, the court of da’wah, and the mosques.
Although ISIS recognized the killing of Abu Ibrahim Al -Khorasani, the organization refuses to recognize the real circumstances of the killing of Abu Hamza Al -Qurashi (Al -Muhajir), his former spokesman, who was killed in mysterious circumstances, and the organization insists on ignoring the disclosure of the fate of “Al -Qurashi”, even after a disclosure ” News now ” For almost five months, the group has been lying to its members about its demise.
In Afghanistan, fighting between the Taliban and ISIS led to the death of a notable ISIS leader.
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