Abu Sayyaf (Islamic State leader)

Fathi Ben Awn Ben 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 (IS) who was described as overseeing gas and oil operations.

[1] Abu Sayyaf was killed on the night of May 15–16, 2015 while resisting capture during a United States Army Delta Force operation in eastern Syria.

[4] It was the first direct action ground raid targeting the militant group by U.S. soldiers inside Syria.

Items, including several terabytes of data from laptops, cellphones and other material, were recovered from the scene and exploited for intelligence purposes.

[2] Hisham al-Hashimi, an Iraqi researcher on IS and security threats, said that al-Jabouri was "a close associate of chief IS spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani.