Arrested ISIS sympathisers in India have claimed that the person they communicated with had identified himself as Shafi Armar alias Yusuf al-Hindi. According to a Hindustan Times report, IS recruiter Shafi Armar alias Yusuf al-Hindi, a native of Bhatkal in Karnataka, is alive and looking for new members to join the Jihadi organisation. Armer is said to operate from Syria and had reportedly put together around two dozen ISIS sympathisers in India. Quoting a counter terror officer, the report said that Armar fled to Pakistan in 2009 with a few of its top-ranking members before moving on to join the Islamic State. Amid news of Islamic State (IS) slowly losing ground in Syria, reports suggest that a key ISIS man who was said to have been killed in a US airstrike last month is alive and has been recruiting men for the terror outfit in India.

Source: dna May 16, 2016 02:11 UTC