According to a message on the Telegram app, he was killed in the province of Idlib “in combat” with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), an extremist movement spun off from al-Qaeda.
Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi was named leader last November when his predecessor Abu Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurashi was reported to have been killed, also in combat in Syria.
At the same time, the terrorist group states that its new leader is Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Quraishi.