Washington, Mar 15: A top Islamic State group commander known as 'Omar the Chechen' is dead
after suffering injuries in a US-led coalition strike in northeastern Syria, the Pentagon has confirmed.
Yesterday's announcement would appear to clear up the fate of the notorious Omar al-Shishani, a week after a US official said the most-wanted militant had been targeted in a March 4 attack on the jihadist's convoy.
'We believe he subsequently died of his injuries,' Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told AFP. On Sunday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said Shishani had been 'clinically dead' for several days.
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Shishani -- the nom de guerre of Tarkhan Batirashvili -- was one of the IS leaders most wanted by Washington, which put a USD 5 million bounty on his head.
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