Muslim Abu Walid al Shishani
Murad Akhmetovich Margoshvili, also known by his nom de guerre Muslim Abu Walid al Shishani (taken from the Saudi fighter Abu al-Walid), is the commander of Junud al-Sham in Syria. Al Shishani was sanctioned by the US State Department on 24 September 2014 for reportedly building a base for foreign fighters. While Margoshvili is a Georgian national, he is also a Kist, a Chechen subethnos living mostly in the Pankisi Gorge.
Murad Margoshvili | |
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| Born | 26 May 1972 Duisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
| Died | 11 December 2021 (aged 49) (claimed) Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib Governorate, Syria |
| Allegiance | Chechen Republic of Ichkeria Junud al-Sham Soviet Army (from ?- ?) |
| Battles/wars | First Chechen War Second Chechen War Syrian Civil War |
According to Russian sources, Margoshvili was killed in Syria by an airstrike of the Russian Air Force on 11 December 2021 in the city of Jisr al-Shughour.
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