Atabiyev swore an oath of allegiance to ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in December 2013.
Atabiyev who also goes by Abu Jihad, is an ethnic Karachai who is responsible for Furat Media, the Russian-language media arm for the Islamic State terrorist group (previous-he was mistakenly identified as a Chechen).
In October 2013, Islamic State appointed Atabiyev as governor of the town of Al-Dana in Syria’s Idlib province after he participated in battles against Syrian regime forces.
In 2013, he also maintained a school in Syria to indoctrinate and train Syrian boys to become future fighters for Islamic State.
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