Agents with Turkey’s MIT intelligence company killed the chief of the Islamic State group in Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stated Sunday.

“The suspected leader of Daesh, code name Abu Hussein al-Qurashi, has been neutralized in an operation carried out [Saturday] by the MIT in Syria,” Mr. Erdogan introduced on TV, utilizing the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State terror group.

He stated brokers with Turkey’s spy company had been pursuing the ISIS chief “for a long time.” The raid befell within the northern Syrian city of Jandaris, managed by Turkish-backed insurgent teams. The goal was in an deserted farm used as an Islamic college, based on the French AFP information company.

Al-Qurashi had been main ISIS because the loss of life on Nov. 30 of the fear group’s earlier chief, Abu Hasan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi.

The Turkish operation occurred two weeks after U.S. Central Command forces killed Abd-al-Hadi Mahmud al-Haji Ali, a senior ISIS chief in Syria chargeable for planning terror assaults within the Middle East and Europe.

That operation, on April 17, was launched after intelligence revealed an ISIS plot to kidnap officers overseas as leverage for ISIS initiatives, U.S. Central Command officers stated.

“We know ISIS retains the desire to strike beyond the Middle East,” Col. Joe Buccino, a U.S. Central Command spokesman stated following the U.S.-led raid that dealt “a significant blow to ISIS operations in the region.”

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