Via LWJ:

A Chechen leader of a unit that joined the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant, al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, has been killed during recent fighting against the Syrian military, according to reports.

The military commander, who is known as Muhammad al Shishani (the Chechen) or Muhammad al Khurasani, was killed while fighting in the town of Lermon on March 19, Kavkaz Center, a propaganda arm of the Islamic Caucasus Emirate reported.

Muhammad was killed during a joint assault with the Army of Emigrants and Supporters against Syrian forces in Lermon. The three groups attacked a Syrian military “complex of concrete, high-rises on the outskirts” of the town and eventually “stormed” the buildings. The two Chechen-led groups then linked up other forces from the Al Nusrah Front to continue operations.

At the time of his death, Muhammad led a faction from the Jaish al Muhajireen wal Ansar (Army of Emigrants and Supporters, or Muhajireen Army) that had joined the Al Nusrah Front last year after Omar al Shishani joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham (ISIS).