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Islamic State: Raqqah Leader is invited to Iraq to “choose a successor to Baghdadi.”

Published: 03 Dec 2016 - 01:25 pm | Last Updated: 04 Nov 2021 - 10:25 pm
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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights received confirmed information from several reliable sources that the leadership of the “Islamic State” in Iraq have asked the leadership of “Al-Raqqah State” which is its stronghold in Syria to come to Iraq, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; the leadership of the organization have asked all military and security leaders, including “commander of Jaysh al-Sham and commander of Al-Raqqah State”, and the sources confirmed to the observatory that the leadership of the organization explained the reason for the meeting, to choose “” Caliph successor of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as Caliphate of Muslims.””