ISIS spokesman Mohammad al-Adnani has been killed, according to the terror group's Amaq news agency and a statement from the group Tuesday.
It is unprecedented for ISIS and its news wing to make such an announcement, and al-Adnani's death marks the highest-profile killing among the terror group.
The Amaq statement said al-Adnani died while inspecting military operations in the area of Aleppo, Syria. ISIS has not revealed the cause of death.
Representatives of the US-led coaltion against ISIS have not commented on the reported death of al-Adnani.
Microsoft apologises after Bing translates ‘Daesh’ into ‘Saudi Arabia’
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Microsoft has been forced to apologise after its Bing translation service suggested that the Arabic name for Islamic State “Daesh” meant “Saudi Arabia” in English.
The blunder was spotted by Saudi social media users, who called for a boycott of all Microsoft products, causing the mistranslation to go viral, and leading to a public outcry.
Microsoft’s vice president for Saudi Arabia, Dr Mamdouh Najjar, said: “As an employee of [Microsoft], I apologise personally to the great Saudi people and this country, dear to all our hearts, for this unintentional mistake.”
Najjar told the Huffington Post that the error was most likely due to Bing’s use of crowdsourced translations. The service can promote alternative translations to the top spot if they receive suggestions from about 1,000 people, which means that without manual correction it is possible to manipulate the system and substitute the correct translation for an alternative.
Najjar said the company was investigating whether that had happened in this instance. Microsoft apologises to Saudi officials and a spokesperson said that the error had been corrected within hours of the company being informed and that steps have been put in place to avoid the same thing happening again.