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27/07/2015
Final Portsmouth IS Fighter Killed
The final member of a group of men from Porstmouth who travelled to fight for Islamic State (IS) is understood to have been killed.
Assad Uzzaman, 25, was one of five men who left the UK in October 2013 to fight for the radical Islamic group in Syria.
His death was reported by Shiraz Maher, an academic who tracks the movements of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.
The senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at Kings College in London tweeted: "The last of the Portsmouth cluster of fighters with Islamic State, Assad Uzzaman (Abu Abdullah) has died."
Three other men from the group, Mehdi Hassan, Mamunur Roshid and Hamidur Rahman, have previously died in Syria.
A fifth man, Mashudur Choudhury, returned to the UK after a few weeks and became the first person in the UK to be convicted of terrorist offences in connection with the Syrian conflict.
(LM)
Assad Uzzaman, 25, was one of five men who left the UK in October 2013 to fight for the radical Islamic group in Syria.
His death was reported by Shiraz Maher, an academic who tracks the movements of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq.
The senior research fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at Kings College in London tweeted: "The last of the Portsmouth cluster of fighters with Islamic State, Assad Uzzaman (Abu Abdullah) has died."
Three other men from the group, Mehdi Hassan, Mamunur Roshid and Hamidur Rahman, have previously died in Syria.
A fifth man, Mashudur Choudhury, returned to the UK after a few weeks and became the first person in the UK to be convicted of terrorist offences in connection with the Syrian conflict.
(LM)
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