Four Islamic State leaders are now listed on the U.S. State Department's Rewards for Justice list, which offers a collective $20 million in rewards for information that leads to the arrests of the men.
Al-Adnani was born in Syria in 1977, and has appeared in numerous official videos released by ISIS. Batirashvili, also known as Omar Shishani ("Chechen" in Arabic), is based in northern Syria. He was born in 1986 in Birkiani, Georgia, and once led an organization affiliated with al Qaeda and made up primarily of foreign fighters from the North Caucasus. Al-Qaduli was born in Mosul, Iraq, in the 1950s, and is believed to have taken control of ISIS while leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi recovered from an injury sustained in an airstrike. Al-Harzi was born in Tunis in 1982, is based in Syria, where he recruits foreign fighters, and is known as the "emir of suicide bombers."
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