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RFE/RL: Ukraine detains suspected Islamic State group leader

By Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
An image grab taken from a propaganda video released on March 17, 2014 by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)'s al-Furqan Media allegedly shows ISIL fighters the trademark Jihadists flag as they stand on an armoured vehicle at an undisclosed location in the Anbar province.
Photo by AFP

An elite Ukrainian police unit has apprehended a suspected 30-year-old member of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group in the Zhytomyr region west of Kyiv.

The Russian citizen was detained based on an Interpol notice related to murder and was hiding in Ukraine to evade arrest, the National Police said in a statement on November 21.

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