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This Article is From Mar 15, 2016

ISIS Commander 'Omar The Chechen' Dead, US Confirms

ISIS Commander 'Omar The Chechen' Dead, US Confirms
He was one of the ISIS leaders most wanted by Washington. (File Photo)
Washington, United States: A top ISIS group commander known as "Omar the Chechen" is dead after suffering injuries in a US-led coalition strike in northeastern Syria, the Pentagon confirmed Monday.

The 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.

Shishani -- the nom de guerre of Tarkhan Batirashvili -- was one of the ISIS leaders most wanted by Washington, which put a $5 million bounty on his head.

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