What you didn’t know about ISIS top leader Abu-Bilal al-Minuki eliminated by U.S.-Nigerian forces
The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control said Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was born in 1982. He was 44 years old.
Mr al-Mainuki is a Nigerian, born in Mainok, Benisheikh, Borno State, Nigeria’s years-long insurgency battleground.
The U.S. authorities designated al-Minuki a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) on June 8, 2023.
According to Counter Extremism Project, a nonprofit international policy organisation, al-Minuki led the Lake Chad division of ISIS’s General Directorate of Provinces (GDP) offices.
Mr al-Minuki in 2018 served as regional commander of ISIS after Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) leader Mamman Nur was killed. He was later made second-in-command in the dreaded terrorist group.
Mr al-Minuki was killed by the U.S.-Nigerian forces during an overnight operation as confirmed by President Donald Trump and President Bola Tinubu in separate statement.
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