
Younes Abaaoud (2001-24 January 2018) was an Islamic State fighter during the Syrian Civil War.
Biography[]
Younes Abaaoud was born in Belgium, the son of a Moroccan shopkeeper and the younger brother of Abdelhamid Abaaoud. He was brainwashed into Salafism during his time in Belgium, and, in January 2014, the 13-year-old left Brussels to join the Islamic State jihadists in northern Syria during the Syrian Civil War. On 24 January 2018, the Belgian government announced that he had been killed in Iraq.