Intel: HTS claims credit for death of Iraqi IS leader's brother
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has claimed responsibility for killing the brother of Hajj Taysir, an Iraqi Islamic State emir killed by the United States earlier this year.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham claimed to have killed a top Islamic State official of Iraqi origin in northwest Syria.
HTS announced the killing of Yusuf Numan “Abul Hareth” in an operation in western Idlib on Saturday, naming him as the brother of another senior IS official killed by a US airstrike in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor earlier this year.
In May the United States killed Moatez Numan Abdul-Latif al-Jabouri, or Hajj Taysir, a senior Iraqi IS governor who once oversaw the jihadist group’s efforts to obtain and develop chemical weapons, according to the US State Department.
Why it matters: Abul Hareth is HTS’ latest jihadist target in northwest Syria.
