Al Bara Shishani was the deputy to Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was killed in combat in 2016
Did Turkey hide deputy of slain IS "minister of war"?
Kiev says it has detained Al Bara Shishani who fled to Turkey where he continued to coordinate activities of Islamic State.
Saturday 16/11/2019
Al Bara Shishani was the deputy to Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was killed in combat in 2016
KIEV- Ukraine's security service said on Friday it had detained the deputy of Abu Omar al-Shishani, the man the Pentagon described as Islamic State's "minister of war", after he crossed into Ukraine on a fake passport last year.
The SBU security service said it had taken into custody Al Bara Shishani, a Georgian citizen, in a joint operation with Georgia's Interior Ministry and the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
"A portrait examination has proved that the detained foreigner is indeed a wanted leader of the Islamic State," the SBU said in a statement.
He was the deputy to Abu Omar al-Shishani, who was killed in combat in 2016 and ranked among America's most wanted militants under a US programme that offered up to $5 million for information to help remove him from the battlefield.
Omar al-Shishani was the nom de guerre of a Georgian Chechen jihadist who was killed in a US-coalition led strike in Syria in 2016.
Al Bara Shishani left Syria in 2016 for Turkey, where he "continued to coordinate" Islamic State activities, the SBU said.
He arrived illegally in Ukraine last year, using a false passport, and was arrested near his house in a Kiev suburb.