This is the big news of the day – Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, the second most senior leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) is dead. An indication of that can be found in an infamous ISIS video featuring three Bangladeshi jihadis in Raqqa, the ISIS capital. There are indications that al-Adnani was indeed the principal patron or sponsor of ISIS operations in Bangladesh. Chowdhury left Canada sometime in 2012/2013 and received training in Syria before being deployed as an ISIS coordinator in Bangladesh. These deaths – al-Adnani’s in al-Bab and Chowdhury’s in Narayanganj – will certainly have a crippling effect on ISIS operations in Bangladesh.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 31, 2016 20:26 UTC