Abu Alaa al-Afri, a former physics teacher, has been appointed the new leader of ISIS following an emergency meeting convened by the organization’s first leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, immediately after he was seriously wounded in an American air-raid that struck the organization’s stronghold located in the northwest of Iraq.
Abu Alaa al-Afri, a former physics teacher, has been appointed the new leader of ISIS following an emergency meeting convened by the organization’s first leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, immediately after he was seriously wounded in an American air-raid that struck the organization’s stronghold located in the northwest of Iraq.
The claim was made by Iraqi government advisor Dr Hisham al Hashimi, speaking to Newsweek.
On Friday, it was reported that the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was left incapacitated after suffering a severe spinal injury after American air raids bombed one of his hideouts last March – though the Pentagon would not acknowledge the raids.
News that al-Baghdadi has been replaced so smoothly from within the ranks of IS will come as a blow for the coalition, which has been targeting senior leaders within the terror group in an attempt to create a power vacuum.
