Melbourne man reportedly killed while fighting for Islamic State in Syria
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Version 0 of 1. A Melbourne man has reportedly been killed while fighting with Islamic State in Syria. Mahmoud Abdullatif travelled to the conflict zone in 2014 and was killed in recent clashes, social media posts on Tuesday suggest. Charles Lister, of the Brookings Doha Center, tweeted that Abdullatif was killed about two days ago. On Monday, a woman claiming to be Abdullatif’s wife likened him to a martyr. “Till we reunite in Jannatul Firdaws my dearest husband,” she posted on social media. “You won the race! Heart of a green bird insha’Allah habibi.” Abdullatif reportedly married 21-year-old Zehra Duman in December after she left Australia to meet him in the Middle East. One of his most recent social media posts, on 11 December, said he wanted a “beautiful death”. “I got married today, alhumdolileh I made hijra and got married here man, insha Allah I receive a beautiful death as well.” He has not been active online since 8 January. The commonwealth attorney general’s office has not confirmed Abdullatif’s death and the department of foreign affairs has told Fairfax media it is very difficult to confirm such deaths. |