ISIL’s commander alive with no injuries, report says
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Abu Omar al-Shishani, a high-ranking commander of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group
News of the death of a senior commander of the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group in a US airstrike in Syria is rejected, a report says.
Abu Omar al-Shishani “had not been exposed to any injury,” the ISIL-affiliated Amaq news agency quoted an unidentified source as saying on Tuesday.
Last week, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said a US airstrike targeted Shishani on March 4 near Syria’s northeastern town of Shaddadah.
The red-bearded ethnic Chechen had been sent to Shaddadah to revive ISIL terrorists following a series of strategic defeats, Cook added.
Backed by Russia's airstrikes, Syrian forces have recently managed to retake key areas from terrorists and deal heavy blows to them across the country.
On Tuesday, US Army Colonel Steve Warren, the Spokesman for the US-led coalition purportedly fighting against ISIL, said the alliance was able to "assess that he (Shishani) is dead" and that it "got the word Monday morning."
Meanwhile, Rami Abdurrahman, with the Britain-based so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said after Shishani was hurt, ISIL "brought a number of doctors to treat him, but they were not able to." The ISIL commander died in a hospital in the eastern suburbs of the Syrian city of Raqqah, Abdurrahman added.
In addition, an unnamed Iraqi intelligence official said Shishani was buried in Dayr al-Zawr on Tuesday.
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