Tag: Umar al Shishani
By Jeralyn, Section War In Iraq
Posted on Fri Mar 11, 2016 at 07:44:00 AM EST
Tags: Umar al Shishani, ISIS, Iraq, Syria (all tags)
Posted on Fri Mar 11, 2016 at 07:44:00 AM EST
Tags: Umar al Shishani, ISIS, Iraq, Syria (all tags)
Two days ago, the U.S. said it targeted Georgian ISIS military leader Omar (Umar) al Shishani (originally from the Russian Caucasus) in an airstrike in al-Shadadi, Syria. The U.S. said he was believed to be dead. (Shishani, whose real name is Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili, been high on the U.S. designated terrorist list for a while. )
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (which is highly critical of ISIS) yesterday said Shishani was badly injured in the strike but was not killed. He's been transferred to a hospital in Raqqa, where he's being treated by a European jihadist doctor. [More...]
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