Maher al-Agal
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Maher al-Agal (Arabic: مَاهِرُ ٱلْعَقَّالْ, romanized: Māhir al-'Aqāl; died 12 July 2022) was a top commander and leader for the Islamic State in Syria.[1][2][3] He was involved in aggressively developing IS networks outside Iraq and Syria, according to CENTCOM.[1][4][5] Al-Agal was also a commander for Jaysh al-Sharqiyyah.[6][7]
Little is known about his life other than his military history.
He was a part of the Islamic State in Raqqa when the organisation still held that territory.[8] When he presumably rose the ranks, he was aggressively spreading IS networks outside of Iraq and Syria worldwide.[1][4][5]
Around 2020, al-Agal would be a member of Turkish-backed factions and would live in Afrin in northwestern Syria, where he would soon become a commander of a Syrian rebel group called Jaysh Al-Sharqiyyah.[8]