Native name أبو سليمان الناصر Years of service 2010–present | Name Abu al-Naser Predecessor Abu Ayman al-Iraqi | |
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Full Name Neaman Salman Mansour al Zaidi Other names Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman Allegiance Al-Qaeda (2010–2013)
Islamic State of Iraq
(April 2010–April 2013)
ISIS
(April 2013–present) Rank Head of ISI War Council
(April 2010–April 2013)
Head of ISIS War Council
(April 2013–present)
ISIS Military Chief
(7 November 2014–present) Battles/wars War on Terror
Iraq
Iraq War
Iraqi Insurgency
Syria
Syrian Civil War
Military intervention against ISIL
American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–present)
American-led intervention in Syria Similar People Abu Ayyub al‑Masri, Abu Omar al‑Baghdadi, Abu Musab al‑Zarqawi, Abu Bakr al‑Baghdadi, Harith al‑Dhari | ||
Abu Suleiman al-Naser (Arabic: أبو سليمان الناصر, Neaman Salman Mansour al Zaidi) was the military commander or "War Minister" of the militant group Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) during the Iraq War.
Little is known about Abu Suleiman. He reportedly to have trained at a foreign fighter camp in Rawa, Iraq, which was raided by US forces in 2003 and imprisoned at Camp Bucca. He succeeded Abu Ayyub al-Masri as Minister of War for the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) in April 2010, after al-Masri and ISI leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi were killed in an operation by US and Iraqi forces in Tikrit. Suleiman's appointment was announced in a statement in which he used the nom de guerre Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, meaning "Defender of God’s Religion, Father of Suleiman". He is reported to have been a detainee at Camp Bucca prison, and served as the ISI's leader in Anbar Province under the nom de guerre Abu Ibrahim al-Ansari.
Iraqi security forces claimed to have killed Suleiman in February 2011, in the city of Hīt, west of Baghdad. However, ISI denied his death a month later. Despite this, ISI leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and ISI spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Adnani confirmed his death in August 2011.
A report by Al Jazeera's Center for Studies, and an analysis of ISIL's leadership structure by a purported insider, also confirmed that Suleiman had in fact been killed in 2011, and that following his death, the position of "War Minister" was replaced by a military council composed of former regime military officers under the leadership of Haji Bakr.