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
Born26 May 1972 (1972-05-26)
Duisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Georgia)
Died11 December 2021 (2021-12-12) (aged 49) (claimed)
Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib Governorate, Syria
AllegianceChechen Republic of Ichkeria
Junud al-Sham
Soviet Army (from ?- ?)
Battles/warsFirst 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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