In 2008 American forces captured him and he was in jail for two years. 

Abdullah Qardash (Abu Ibrahim al-Hashmi al-Qurayshi), the leader of ISIS, who was assassinated, was born in 1976 west of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. 

His original name is Amir. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in Quran and Islamic education from Mosul University in northern Iraq in 2000. 

He did his military service in the Iraqi army in 2002 and when he graduated he came to the city of Talafar in northern Iraq and joined one of the Sunni terrorist organizations, Ansar a - Suna. 

In 2004, the Iraqi branch under the command of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi joined al-Qaeda. After the assassination of a-Zarqawi he became a halakhic man in the city of Mosul. 

In 2008 American forces captured him and he was in jail for two years. 

When he was released from prison, he returned to northern Iraq and joined former ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, becoming his ally. 

Following ISIS 'takeover of large parts of Syria and Iraq, he served as ISIS' "justice minister." He later lost his right foot in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in the Mosul area of northern Iraq.