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| BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Islamic State’s spokesman and overseer of external terrorist operations, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, was killed in the Syrian province of Aleppo, the group’s news outlet reported on Tuesday. | |
| A founding member of the group, Mr. Adnani, a 39-year-old Syrian, was its chief propagandist, and he was behind the Islamic State’s call for attacks against Western interests around the world. He was also widely believed to be an operational leader, running what the group called its external operations division, which is responsible for recruiting operatives around the world and instigating or organizing them to carry out attacks that have included Paris, Brussels and Dhaka, Bangladesh. | A founding member of the group, Mr. Adnani, a 39-year-old Syrian, was its chief propagandist, and he was behind the Islamic State’s call for attacks against Western interests around the world. He was also widely believed to be an operational leader, running what the group called its external operations division, which is responsible for recruiting operatives around the world and instigating or organizing them to carry out attacks that have included Paris, Brussels and Dhaka, Bangladesh. |
| The Islamic State’s news outlet, Amaq, said Mr. Adnani had been killed while checking up on the group’s military operations in Aleppo Province. | The Islamic State’s news outlet, Amaq, said Mr. Adnani had been killed while checking up on the group’s military operations in Aleppo Province. |
| It was unclear what force might have been behind his death, however. In the northern part of Aleppo Province, near the Turkish border, the Islamic State is currently under attack by long list of antagonists: directly by Turkish, American and Russian airstrikes, by American- and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, and by American-backed Kurdish rebels and their Arab allies. | It was unclear what force might have been behind his death, however. In the northern part of Aleppo Province, near the Turkish border, the Islamic State is currently under attack by long list of antagonists: directly by Turkish, American and Russian airstrikes, by American- and Turkish-backed Syrian rebels, and by American-backed Kurdish rebels and their Arab allies. |
| Even as the Islamic State has lost territory on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria, it has continued to press its terror attacks abroad seemingly unabated. In May, Mr. Adnani declared: “Do you think, America, that defeat is by the loss of towns or territory? Were we defeated when we lost the cities in Iraq and retreated to the desert without a city or a land?” He offered an answer: “No, true defeat is losing the will and desire to fight.” | Even as the Islamic State has lost territory on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria, it has continued to press its terror attacks abroad seemingly unabated. In May, Mr. Adnani declared: “Do you think, America, that defeat is by the loss of towns or territory? Were we defeated when we lost the cities in Iraq and retreated to the desert without a city or a land?” He offered an answer: “No, true defeat is losing the will and desire to fight.” |