Trump says Isis second in command Abu-Bilal ‘eliminated from battlefield’
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4 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.
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“American and Nigerian forces had assassinated Abu-Bilal al-Minuki”
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Multiple independent news sources (TASS and other web search results) report that Donald Trump confirmed the elimination of Abu-Bilal al-Minuki in a joint operation by US and Nigerian forces.
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— Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi (Arabic: أبو حفص الهاشمي القرشي, romanized: ʾAbū Ḥafṣ al-Hāshimī al-Qurashī) is the fifth and current caliph of the Islamic State. He was named as caliph on 3 August 202…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hafs_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Hafs_al-Hashimi_al-Qurashi
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— Abubakar Mohammed Shekau (23 March 1973 – 19 May 2021) was a Nigerian militant who was the leader of Boko Haram, an extremist organization based in northeastern Nigeria, from 2009 until his suicide in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abubakar_Shekau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abubakar_Shekau
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— Nasir Muhammad 'Awad al-Ghidan al-Harbi (20 July 1974 - 16 October 2017), known by his kunya Abu Bilal al-Harbi, was a Saudi Arabian citizen who was the governor of the Islamic State's branch in Yemen…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bilal_al-Harbi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bilal_al-Harbi
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“Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of Isis globally”
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The claim that Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was the global second-in-command of ISIS is corroborated by multiple independent news sources, including Nypost and TASS.
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— Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally
https://tass.com/world/2131729
https://tass.com/world/2131729
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— Abu-Bilal al-Minuki, second in command of ISIS globally
https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/us-and-nigerian-forces…
https://nypost.com/2026/05/15/us-news/us-and-nigerian-forces…
“Al-Minuki had been placed under US sanctions in 2023 for ties to the group.”
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Web search results explicitly state that Abu-Bilal al-Minuki was placed under US sanctions in 2023 for ties to the Islamic State group. Additionally, the Counter Extremism Project identifies him as a U.S.-designated ISIS senior leader.
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— Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Ali al-Badri (28 July 1971 – 27 October 2019), commonly known by his nom de guerre Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was an Iraqi militant leader and former teacher who was the founder and f…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Bakr_al-Baghdadi
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— Fathi bin Awn bin Jildi Murad al-Tunisi (Arabic: فتحي بن عون بن الجلدي مراد التونسي), also known by the nom de guerre Abu Sayyaf (Arabic: ابو سياف), was a Tunisian senior leader of the Islamic State (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf_(Islamic_State_lead…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Sayyaf_(Islamic_State_lead…
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— The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
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“Trump said in a post on Truth Social”
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Multiple sources confirm that Donald Trump announced the elimination of Abu-Bilal al-Minuki via his Truth Social platform.
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— The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
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— The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is a proposed reserve asset, funded by the United States Department of the Treasury's forfeited bitcoin, announced by United States president Donald Trump in March 2025. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Strategic_Bitcoin_Reserve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Strategic_Bitcoin_Reserve
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— During his second term as President of the United States, Donald Trump has made numerous false or misleading claims. The Associated Press fact-checked several of Trump's statements from his first week…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements…
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