
38-year-old Tamaz Batirashvili, the brother of former leader of the so called "Islamic State" Tarkhan Batirashvili died in Syria. He was from the village of Birkani in the Pankisi Gorge. Batirashvili went to Syria in 2013. In Pankisi they say that Batirashvili was killed in the fighting. In 2016 his brother died in Syria, the leader of "Islamic State" Tarkhan Batirashvili, the same Abu Omar al-Shishani.
A total of 27 Pankisi residents were killed in combat operations in Syria.