US Adds IS Leader's Associate to Terror List

Hajji Abd al-Nasir, an Iraqi national who served as a senior Islamic State military leader in Syria and a close confidant of its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has been named as a specially designated global terrorist by the United States, the U.S. State Department announced Tuesday. Al-Nasir, also known to Interpol as Taha al-Khuwayt, was born between 1965 and 1969 in the Iraqi northern town of Tal Afar. He has held several leadership positions in the Islamic State terror group over the...

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