Muhsin al-Fadhli (24 April 1981 – 8 July 2015), also known as Abu Majid Samiyah or Muhsin Fadhil 'Ayyid al-Fadhli, was the leader of the Khorasan Group, an army of foreign fighters in the Syrian Civil War created in 2014 to serve the Al-Nusra Front and al-Qaeda. He was reported dead in 2014, but confirmed dead in 2015 after another airstrike.
Biography[]
Muhsin al-Fadhli was born on 24 April 1981 in Kuwait, and became a member of the al-Qaeda terrorist group - Muhsin became a close supporter of Osama bin Laden and was one of the few people informed of the 9/11 attacks on 11 September 2001 before they were carried out. In 2012, he was made the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iran, and in 2013 he was sent to Syria as the representative of al-Qaeda. He persuaded al-Qaeda to disassociate itself from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria in February 2014 due to ISIS' cruelty against fellow Muslims, and he became the leader of the al-Qaeda and Al-Nusra Front-affiliated Khorasan Group. On 24 September 2014 he was allegedly killed in an airstrike by the United States and their allies in Syria. Bomb maker David Drugeon was wounded, and al-Fadhli turned out to have survived. However, on 8 July 2015 he was confirmed to have been killed in a US airstrike on a vehicle near Sarmada, Syria, located on Idlib Governorate's border with Turkey.