Five ISIL Takfiri militants die fighting in Syria

15 January, 2015 00:00

At least five Canadians have been killed in Syria while fighting for the Takfiri ISIL group, Canadian media report.

Canada’s National Post reported on Wednesday that Ottawa-born John Maguire, who joined the terrorist ISIL group in Syria in January 2013, died in the northern Syrian flashpoint Kurdish town of Kobani.

In a six-minute video released by the terrorist group, the 23-year old Ottawa man, identified as Abu Anwar al-Canadi, had warned that Canada’s involvement in a US-led coalition’s airstrikes against alleged ISIL positions in Syria and Iraq would result in revenge “lone wolf” attacks in the country.

The report also said that four other Canadians from a single family of Somali origin were killed in recent months while fighting alongside the extremist terrorist group in Syria. Most of them are believed to have left Canada in October 2013.

Kurdish fighters are reportedly in control of nearly 70 percent of Kobani as ISIL has lost ground in the strategic territory.

Kobani and its surroundings have been under attack since mid-September, with ISIL capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages and killing hundreds of people.

ISIL controls some parts of Iraq and Syria. The terrorists are engaged in crimes against humanity in the areas under their control. They have terrorized and killed people of all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.

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