Siddha­rta Dhar believ­ed to be masked leader who appear­ed in an IS video of the execut­ion of severa­l prison­ersThe US State Department on Tuesday designated an Indian-origin man from Britain, Siddharta Dhar, as a global terrorist and imposed sanctions on him. Along with Dhar, Abdelatif Ghani a Belgian-Moroccan citizen was also designated a terrorist. He left the UK in 2014 to travel to Syria to join IS. Suicide bombers kill 40 at Shia centre in Afghan capitalGhani is believed to be fighting for IS in the Middle East, according to the State Department. He is also believed to be connected to UK-based IS sympathisers Mohamad Ali Ahmed and Humza Ali, who were convicted in the UK in 2016 of terrorism offenses.

Source: The Express Tribune January 24, 2018 07:09 UTC