A press secretary of the Islamic State was killed in Aleppo

In the Syrian city of Aleppo, a spokeswoman for the extremist group "Islamic State" Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was killed. This was reported by the BBC, with reference to the AMAQ news agency controlled by radical Islamists.

In a message distributed through Telegram, IS confirmed the death of Al-ADNANI, without bringing the details of his death. According to AMAQ, al-Anani was killed as a result of a airstrike, "when he was checking the operation of the operation to reflect attacks on Aleppo."

Al-Adnani is known that he is about 37-39 years old. He, in particular, was known to be distributed through the Internet calls for single terrorist attacks on representatives of Western countries. The last time such an appeal was published in May of this year. Some sources called al-Anani the second person in the IG hierarchy after Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

For information about the whereabouts of Al-Anani, the US State Department has appointed a reward of $ 5 million.

Previously, reports of the death of the IG press secretary had already appeared, but later they were not confirmed.

On July 14, it was reported that in a battle near the Iraqi city of Shirkat , Abu Umar Ash -Shishani, one of the key commanders of the Islamic State, who served as the "military minister" IG died . Abu Umar al -Shishani (Ash -Shishani - Ar. Chechen) - the pseudonym of the Georgian citizen Tarkhan Batiralsvili. The jihadist was born in January 1986 in the Pankisian Gorge; Chechen-Chistine by mother and Georgians by father. Earlier, Batihvili served in the Georgian army, but shortly after the Russian aggression of 2008 he ended up in a military hospital with tuberculosis, and then was recognized as worthless to army service. In 2010, Batihvili was in prison for illegal storage of weapons. After his release in 2012, he went to Turkey, and from there to Syria. There, for some time, he commanded the Army of Emigrants and Partisans, related to Al -Qaeda, and then took over the military leadership of one of the IS groups, the Muhajir brigade.

In May 2015, Batirashvili Together Al-Adnani was on the list of four key leaders of IG, for which the US State Department announced a total of $ 20 million. The list also included the names of Abd Ar-Raman Mustafa al-Kaduli and Tarik Ben At-Tahara Ben al-Falikh al-Avni al-Harzi.