Kurdish Peshmerga forces kill ISIS minister of war Tarkhan Batirhvili

Kurdish Peshmerga forces kill ISIS minister of war Tarkhan Batirhvili
August 7, 2014

ERBIL-Hewlêr, Kurdistan region 'Iraq',— Kurdish security sources revealed killing one of the most prominent leaders of the al-Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS during battles to regain control of the dam of Mosul.


The source said that "A force of the Peshmerga killed the Minister of war, Tarkhan Batirhvili known as Abu Omar al-Shishani during battles in Dam of Mosul.

He added that the Kurdish forces completely controlled the dam site.

Omar al-Shishani ( Chechen), is one of hundreds of Chechens who are considered one of the most extremist fighters in Syria, he appeared as the leading commander of ISIS organization which adopts the approach of Al-Qaeda, according to what was reported by Graphic News.

A graph for Graphic News, shows that Abu Omar al-Shishani, whose real name is Tarkhan Batirhvili was born in 1968, in the Pankisi Valley in Georgia.

Between 2006 and 2010 he served in the Georgian army, and participated in fighting against thewww.Ekurd.net Russian invasion of Georgia, he had been promoted to the rank of sergeant in 2008.

In 2010, he was dismissed from the service in the army, after spending time in the hospital, suffering from tuberculosis. In the same year, he was arrested by Georgian police on charges of possessing weapons illegally.    


In early 2012, he had been released because of his deteriorating health, after serving 16 months of a three-year sentence in prison.

In the same year, he joined the struggle to topple President Bashar al-Assad. And led a group called "Army of immigrants and supporters", which is composed largely of Chechen fighters.

In (November 2013), he declared loyalty to the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.


In 2014, he led an attack of ISIS against other rebel competing groups, which is fighting the regime in eastern province of Deir al-Zour in Syria, to become a main leader for the forces of the "Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ", after the death of leader of the extremist organization, Abu Abdulrahman Al-Biloai last June .

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