Place of Birth: Tal Afar, Nineveh Province, Iraq;

Birth name: Fadel Ahmed Abdullah al-Hiyali;

Died: 18 August 2015, Near Mosul, Iraq (killed by a US-led drone strike);

Branch:
1. Special Republican Guard (until 2003);
2. Military of ISIS (8 April 2013–18 August 2015);

Rank:
1. Lieutenant Colonel (up until 2003);
2. Deputy Leader of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Iraq (8 April 2013–18 August 2015).

Activities:

al-Turkmani once a Iraqi Army Colonel under Saddam Hussein rule is also known as, Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi. He was ISIS’s governor for territories held by the organization in Iraq.

He was considered the ISIS second-in-command, along with his counterpart Abu Ali al-Anbari, who held a similar position in Syria.

Al-Turkmani played a political role of overseeing the local councils and a military role that includes directing operations against opponents of ISIS.

He was a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi military’s intelligence unit Istikhbarat, he also spent time as a Special Forces officer in the Special Republican Guard right up until the US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was decommissioned from the Iraqi army after U.S. forces arrived, and joined Sunni insurgents to fight the Americans. He spent time in a US prison in Iraq, to be exact in Camp Bucca.

Al-Turkmani was the head of ISIS’s military council. He reportedly led the council of six to nine military commanders who directed the terrorist group’s military strategy.