A senior Islamic State commander described by the Pentagon as the group’s “minister of war” was seriously wounded in a US airstrike but not killed, activists have said.
US officials said on Wednesday that the 4 March strike in Syria had probably killed Tarkhan Batirashvili but mystery surrounds his fate and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a network with wide contacts inside Syria, said the military leader also known as Omar al-Shishani (Omar the Chechen) was being treated not far from the group’s capital in Raqqa by a foreign surgeon.
The network said another senior foreign Isis figure in Raqqa had disappeared in recent days. The man, nicknamed Abu Hudhaifa al Baljiki, a foreign fighter from Belgium, had led the Hisbah, the feared internal security apparatus for the group in the city.
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