Reports: Lebanese IS Fighter Killed in Iraq
A Lebanese Islamic State group fighter, who hails from the northern city of Tripoli, has been killed in Iraq, media reports said Friday.
Hassan al-Masri, known as Aba Qassem al-Lubnani, died while fighting alongside the IS, they said, without specifying in which area.
Al-Masrsi hails from the Tripoli area of al-Beddawi, the reports added.
Several Lebanese have been killed fighting alongside militants in Iraq and Syria.
The latest to die in Syria was Khaled Sharrouf, a notorious Lebanese-Australian IS fighter.
Sharrouf gained global infamy last year when he posted pictures of himself and his seven-year-old son on Twitter holding up the severed heads of soldiers.
The IS has taken over large parts of Syria and Iraq and declared a self-styled caliphate.
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