| Bilal al-Sudani | |
| Birth Place: | Sudan |
| Death Date: | 25 January 2023 |
| Death Place: | Somalia |
| Death Cause: | Assassination |
Bilal al-Sudani, also known as Suhayl Salim Abd el-Rahman (died 25 January 2023) was a member of the al-Shabaab insurgency and later a member of Islamic State in Somalia.
Al-Sudani was designated a terrorist by the U.S. in 2012 for his work in helping to finance foreigners traveling to al-Shabaab training camps. Al-Sudani later began to help finance ISIS in Africa and other countries including Afghanistan. In 2022, the U.S. accused al-Sudani of working with a South African, Abdella Hussein Abadigga, to recruit young men in South Africa for ISIS and send them to weapons training camps.[1] He was likely in charge of the IS office in Somalia, which was influential in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Mozambique.[2]
Al-Sudani was killed by DEVGRU operators in a raid on a cave system in northern Somalia on January 25, 2023.[3] The raid was intended to lead to his capture.[4] Ten members of the group were also killed in the operation with no civilian or U.S. casualties.[5]