By Lisa Burgess • 18 March 2020 • 22:42
The new leader of Islamic State was officially named last night as a previous member of al-Qaeda in Iraq who led the torture and killing of thousands of Yazidis.
Amir Mohammed Abdul Rahman al-Mawli, a former officer in Saddam Hussein’s army, was placed on the official blacklist of terrorists by the US government with a $5 million reward offered for information leading to his capture.
Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, announced that al-Mawli was named leader of Isis in late October, days after a raid by US military murdered the group’s self-styled “caliph”, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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