Rot in hell.

Via Business Insider:

The US now believes that it successfully killed one of ISIS’s most successful military masterminds in a March 4 airstrike in Syria.

The airstrike in northeastern Syria was aimed against ISIS’s “minister of war” Omar al-Shishani, also known as Omar the Chechen. It was carried out with multiple waves of manned and unmanned aircraft. The strike flattened an area that the US now believes was holding Shishani.

The death of Shishani will likely function as a major setback for ISIS. Aside from ISIS’s “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Georgian ex-commando Omar al-Shishani was the most recognizable and popular of the powerful terrorist group’s leaders.

And Shishani’s status, combined with his ethnicity, helped to draw a number of foreign fighters from the Caucasus region into Syria to help fight alongside ISIS. As such, his death will also function as a major moral loss for the militant group.

However, not everyone agrees with the US’s assessment that the airstrikes managed to kill Shishani. The monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reports that the airstrike did not kill Shishani, but has instead left him severely injured and “clinically dead.”

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