Abu Omar al-Shishani, one of the ISIS’s top commanders, may have been killed in a US-led airstrike in Syria.
Red-bearded Al-Shishani, a senior aide to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was likely killed in a bombing last Friday near the southern town of al-Shaddadi, which American-backed forces from the Syrian Arab Coalition seized from the Islamic State last month, reports the New York Post.
Al-Shishani, who was based in Raqqa, was recently sent to al-Shaddadi to give a boost to the group’s soldiers after a series of defeats to local forces supported by the US coalition, the Pentagon said. In a statement released by Pentagon on Tuesday, it said that Al-Shishani is a battle-tested leader with experience who had led ISIl (ISIS) fighters in numerous engagements in Iraq and Syria.