Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday evening the elimination of the leader of the Islamic State. Erdogan said Turkish intelligence services had been tracking this person "for a long time" The Islamic State, which in 2014 controlled large areas of Syria and Iraq, suffered a first defeat in Iraq in 2017 and then in Syria in 2019, losing all its main areas of control.
However, its operatives in hiding continue to carry out attacks, albeit limited, in both countries, and the group claims attacks in other countries.