Tag: Pankisi youth joining Islamic State

33rd ISIS fighter from Georgia's Pankisi Gorge dead in Syrian war

March 9, 2019 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A man from Pankisi valley in Georgia have been killed in Syria. Ruslan Tokhosashvili, 35, was the 33rd Kist militant from Pankisi killed in Syria, local-based radio station, Radioway, reports. Tokhosashvili reportedly left his native village of Birkiani for Syria in 2014 and joined the terror group Islamic State. Birkiani is the home village … Read more

Groups demand investigation into how anti-terror forces killed 19-year-old

January 12, 2018 by DFWatch staff

Groups rallied outside the government building. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The death of a young Chechen man who was shot in an anti-terror operation last month has sparked an outcry among locals in the Muslim-inhabited region he came from, while activists in Tbilisi rallied outside the government building.

Al-Qaeda commander from Pankisi reported dead in Syria

December 18, 2017 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A high-profile al-Qaeda affiliated field commander of Georgian-Kist origin has been killed in the Syrian civil war.

Reports by Syrian and Lebanese news agencies said Salahuddin al-Shishani, was killed during a Russian air raid near Hama province, in northern Syria.

Georgian-born militant dies in Syrian war

December 14, 2016 by DFWatch staff

(კახეთის საინფორმაციო ცენტრი) — Muslim Kushtanashvili and Ramzan Baghakashvili.

TBILISI, DFWatch–There were reports on Tuesday that 20-year-old Ramzan Baghakashvili from Pankisi Gorge in the northeast of Georgia has died in Syria.

Baghakashvili, who was from a village Dumastura, left Georgia for Syria two years ago with another teenager.

Pankisi native, reportedly ISIS member, killed in Middle East

November 8, 2016 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–One more Pankisi native has been killed in the Middle East. Reports vary about where the 24 year old Mukhad Khangoshvili was killed.

According to Interpressnews, which relies on an unidentified source in Pankisi, it happened in Mosul,

21-year-old IS militant from Georgia dies in Syria air raid

August 24, 2016 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 21-year-old man from Georgia has died fighting alongside ISIS in the Syria war. Sultan Gumashvili was from Pankisi Gorge.

Georgian media outlets are reporting that the deceased militant’s father Adam Gumashvili is also fighting for ISIS in Syria and is a prominent

New cafe offers youth a place to meet in Pankisi

August 12, 2016 by Mari Nikuradze

TBILISI, DFWatch–A new café in Pankisi Gorge will offer young people a place to gather.

Locals say they cannot remember ever having had a place for young people to get together. The café opened Wednesday in the village Duisi, the central village in Pankisi Gorge,

Georgian IS militant sentenced to 12 years in jail

August 11, 2016 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A Georgian citizen was Wednesday sentenced to 12 years in jail for cooperating with the terrorist organization Islamic State.

As most of the Georgians who have joined the Islamic State group, Davit Borhcashvili comes from Pankisi Valley. He was detained in November 2015

Two Islamist militants from Georgia killed in Syria

July 12, 2016 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–Two men from Pankisi valley in Georgia, one aged 26 and the 34, have been killed in Syria.

The younger of them, Bekkhan (Beka) Tokhosashvili, was a native of the village Birkiani. Tokhosashvili left Georgia in 2014 and joined the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria,

Another Georgian Islamist militant killed in Syria

June 30, 2016 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–A 39-year-old man from Pankisi Valley in northeastern Georgia has reportedly been killed fighting on for the terrorist group Islamic State (IS) in Syria.

The death of Omar Margoshvili, reported by Information Centre of Kakheti on Wednesday,