{"id":231602,"date":"2016-03-15T00:44:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-confirms-death-of-top-daesh-commander\/"},"modified":"2016-03-15T00:44:48","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T00:44:48","slug":"us-confirms-death-of-top-daesh-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-confirms-death-of-top-daesh-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"US confirms death of top Daesh commander"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"84\">\n<p><strong>The United States has confirmed the death of a top Daesh (ISIL) commander known as Omar al-Shishani, reports say.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe he subsequently died of his injuries,&#8221; Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>Officials previously said that Shishani, also known as Omar &#8220;the Chechen,&#8221; \u00a0had been targeted in a March 4 US airstrike near the town of al-Shaddadi in the south of the Hasakah province in northeastern Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Shishani, as one of ISIL most capable commanders, was born Tarkhan Tayumurazovich Batirashvili and has once served in an elite Georgian military unit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Batirashvili is a battle-tested leader with experience who had led ISIL fighters in numerous engagements in Iraq and Syria,&#8221; Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook said after the initial strike.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;His potential removal from the battlefield would negatively impact ISIL&#8217;s ability to recruit foreign fighters &#8212; especially those from Chechnya and the Caucus regions &#8212; and degrade ISIL&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/03\/15\/455768\/US-Daesh-Omar-alShishani-\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has confirmed the death of a top Daesh (ISIL) commander known as Omar al-Shishani, reports say. &#8220;We believe he subsequently died of his injuries,&#8221; Navy Captain Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, told AFP. Officials previously said that Shishani, also known as Omar &#8220;the Chechen,&#8221; \u00a0had been targeted in a March 4 US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231602","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}