The alleged Isis leader , whose death was only announced in the last few hours by both a self-styled spokesman for the jihadist organization and the United States, was an Iraqi national and would have died on 14 October.
This was reported by the National Observatory for Human Rights in Syria - thanks to the dense network of contacts it has had in the war-torn country for 15 years - also publishing a photo of the Isis leader killed in the southern Syrian town of Jassem, in the Daraa region.
The man was identified as Abderrahman al Iraqi , an Iraqi national.
According to the Observatory's reconstruction, he committed suicide while the house where he had taken refuge together with two other jihadist leaders, one Syrian and one Lebanese, was besieged by local militiamen co-opted by the Syrian government and Russia. The military forces of the Kremlin - in Syria since 2015 - had already announced on 17 October the killing of about twenty jihadists in the Daraa region.
(Unioneonline/vf)
