BAGHDAD: A top Daesh commander and feared ethnic Chechen terrorist Omar Al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a US airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday.

Al-Shishani, who was wounded in a US airstrike earlier this month, died on Monday outside the Daesh group’s main stronghold of Raqqa in Syria, the two told The Associated Press.

There was no immediate confirmation of his death from Daesh or Daesh-linked media postings but a spokesman for the US-led coalition battling the Daesh group in Iraq said the alliance was also confirming that the militant commander had died.

The red-bearded ethnic Chechen was one of the most prominent Daesh commanders, who earlier served as the group’s military commander for the territory it controls in Syria. He later became the commander of the group’s ground forces, according to Hisham Al-Hashimi, an Iraqi scholar and author who closely follows the group.

According to Rami Abdurrahman, of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, after Al-Shishani was wounded, Daesh “brought a number of doctors to treat him, but they were not able to.”

Abdurrahman said Al-Shishani died in a hospital in the eastern suburbs of Raqqa. The Iraqi intelligence official said the Chechen was buried in Deir El-Zor on Tuesday.

Al-Shishani, whose real name is Tarkhan Batirashvili, was an ethnic Chechen from the Caucasus nation of Georgia, specifically from the Pankisi Valley, a center of Georgia’s Chechen community and once a stronghold for militants.