Ukranian SBU security forces arrest major Islamic State warlord in Ukraine

Ukraine’s SBU security service has arrested Al Bara Shishani, a senior warlord with the notorious terror group Islamic State, in Kyiv Oblast, the security agency reported on Nov. 15.

The successful operation was conducted in cooperation with Georgia’s Interior Ministry and the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States.

Al Bara Shishani, a Georgian citizen of Chechen origins, occupied the post of the amir of the Islamic State’s religious-terrorist cell in the province of Latakia in Syria.

Source: Kyiv Post