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Muslim Abu Walid al Shishani

Murad Akhmetovich Margoshvili,[1] also known by his nom de guerre Muslim Abu Walid al Shishani (taken from the Saudi fighter Abu al-Walid),[4] is the commander of Junud al-Sham in Syria.[2] Al Shishani was sanctioned by the US State Department on 24 September 2014[5] for reportedly building a base for foreign fighters.[6] While Margoshvili is a Georgian national, he is also a Kist, a Chechen subethnos living mostly in the Pankisi Gorge.[7]

Murad Margoshvili

26 May 1972 (1972-05-26)[1]
Duisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union[1]
(now Georgia)

11 December 2021 (2021-12-12) (aged 49) (claimed)
Jisr al-Shughour, Idlib Governorate, Syria

Chechen Republic of Ichkeria
Junud al-Sham[2]
Soviet Army (from ?- ?)[3]

First Chechen War[3]
Second Chechen War
Syrian Civil War[2]

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.[8]