ISIS leader Mohammed Al Mawla now has a $10m bounty on his head.
The National: Al Mawla: new ISIS leader has a reputation for brutality
Little is know about the man who replaced Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, who was killed in a US raid last October.
With monikers as divergent as the "Professor" and the "Destroyer", ISIS's new head has a reputation for brutality, but otherwise remains largely an enigma.
Amir Mohammed Said Abd Al Rahman Al Mawla replaced Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi after his death in a raid by US special forces last October.
Al Mawla was initially presented to the world by ISIS as Abu Ibrahim Al Hashimi Al Qurashi – a man about whom America and Iraq had little intelligence.
US officials later came to believe that Al Qurashi was Al Mawla's nom de guerre, recognising him in March as the new head of ISIS.
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Update: How new ISIS leader ‘The Destroyer’ rose to power through brutal campaigns of rape and slaughter (The SUN)
WNU Editor:This guy is a piece of work. Not surprising. The US wants him badly .... U.S. doubles bounty on ISIS leader to $10 million (CNBC).
