New Delhi: According to the reports, a top Islamic State leader who used to recruit people from India has been killed last week.
Mohammad Shafi Armar was killed in a US drone strike in Syria recently. Shafi, aka Yousuf was in-charge of IS recruitment in India. Shafi, 26-year-old hailed from Bhatkal in Karnataka, the report said.
IS recruits arrested over the past few months in India are reported to have told the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and police that Shafi was working to set up IS units in every Indian state.
His elder brother Sultan Armar, who was leading the IS India unit till last year, was killed in March 2015 in a similar operation.
