Muna Abdule, the wife of the new ISIS leader, Abdulqadir Mumin, who lives in Britain and is raising her three children, has spoken out for the first time about her husband’s whereabouts.
Muna told the Daily Mail that her husband Abdulqadir Mumin left her and their children when they were young and did not let them know where he was going, to carry out his international terrorist mission.
She said: “He left us, what else can I say? I haven’t seen him or heard from him for over 10 years. The children know, but there is no contact.”
Muna, the wife of the ISIS leader, added that she had difficulty explaining to her children where their father was and what he was doing.
She said that when she visited her husband in Somalia, he told her that he had changed, but she said that was not true. Since then, she said she has not had any contact with him.
Her interview comes amid reports that the new ISIS leader is still hiding in the Cal Miskaad mountains, amid intense joint operations by Puntland forces and US special forces.
On November 25, US special forces attacked ISIS bases in the Balade Valley. MQ-9 Reaper drones carried out targeted strikes on suspected ISIS hideouts.
The operation killed a senior ISIS leader and 15 fighters from Syria, Turkey, and Ethiopia.
