Khaled Sharrouf (died June 2015 or 11 August 2017) was an Islamic State fighter from Australia who is best known for his social media usage, including pictures of himself and his sons posing with guns, and his son holding a severed head.
Biography[]
Khaled Sharrouf was born in Australia to a Muslim family, and he married a woman named Tara Nettleton and had five children with her. Sharrouf later became a radical Islamist, and he decided to bring his wife and children with him to Iraq and Syria to live in the Islamic State. He was active online, and in August 2014 he posted a picture of his son holding the severed head of a dead enemy soldier. Sharrouf was called a "repugnant" man by the Australian government, showing little regard for the welfare of his children; he had his thirteen-year-old daughter marry IS Mohamed Elomar, whom she bore a child in September 2014. Sharrouf was apparently killed in a drone strike with Elomar in June 2015, with his daughter saying that her father had been killed. His wife would also die of appendicitis soon after, leaving the children without a family.In February 2017,Khaled was stripped of his citizenship,and on 11 August 2017,was killed by an airstrike in Syria.