Abu Ali al-Anbari

Abu Ali al-Anbari
Abu Ali al-Anbari
	Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli
Native name	عبد الرحمن مصطفى القادولي
Birth name	Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli
Born	1957 or 1959; Al-Hadar, Nineveh, Iraq
Died	March 2016; Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria
Allegiance	Baathist Iraq (1980–1988); Ansar al-Islam (2000–2003); Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (2003–2004); Al-Qaeda (2004–2006) Al-Qaeda in Iraq (2004–2006); Islamic State of Iraq (2012 – April 2013); Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (April 2013 – June 2014); ; Islamic State (June 2014 – March 2016)
Years of service	2000–2016
Rank	Private in the Iraqi army; Deputy leader of the Islamic State in Syria
Battles / wars	War on Terror Iraq Iraq War; Iraqi Insurgency; ; Syria Syrian Civil War Inter-rebel conflict; ; ; Military intervention against the Islamic State American-led intervention in Iraq (2014–2021); American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War; ; ;

Abd al-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli (Arabic: عَبْدُ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ مُصْطَفَى ٱلْقَادُولِيِّ, romanized: ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān Musṭafā al-Qādūlī; 1957 or 1959 – March 2016), better known as Abu Ali al-Anbari (Arabic: أَبُو عَليِّ ٱلْأَنْبَارِيِّ, romanized: ʾAbū ʿAlī al-ʾAnbārī), was the governor for territories held by the Islamic State (IS) in Syria. Considered the IS second-in-command (along with Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, his counterpart in Iraq), he was viewed as a potential successor of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

On 14 May 2014, he was listed as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the U.S Treasury Department, and on 5 May 2015, the U.S. Department of State announced a reward of up to US$7 million for information leading to his capture or death.

On 25 March 2016, the U.S. Department of Defense announced al-Qaduli’s death as a result of a US Special Operations helicopter gunship raid conducted earlier that week along the Iraq-Syria border.