DUSHANBE, June 22, 2015, Asia-Plus — According to information posted on the Russian social-media site Odnoklassniki, two other Tajiks have been killed in Syria fighting alongside the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants – Abduhakim and Abu Barro Shahritousi.
We will recall that information about death of Nasim Nabotov, Moscow State University dropout from Khatlon’s Farkhor district, in Syria was posted on social networks in early June.
Nasim Nabotov, 28, reportedly enrolled in the economics faculty of MGU in 2008. But by the time he was in the second year of his degree course, he had become far more interested in religion than economics. As part of his newfound interest in Islam, Nasim started to attend mosque. Eventually, his father decided to bring Nasim back to Tajikistan so that he could keep an eye on him. Nasim dropped out of his studies in the second year of his course and went home to his village in the Farkhor district. Although Nasim had been taken out of the immediate circle of his religious friends in Moscow, he retained an interest in Islam — and “jihad.” Nasim Nabotov disappeared on March 5 after buying an air ticket to Moscow.
According to the data from Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry, 412 Tajik nationals are fighting alongside ISL militants in Syria and Iraq and 50 of them have brought their wives and children with them.
