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A resident of Sheki region of Azerbaijan, declared internationally wanted has been killed in Afghanistan. As Azerbaijani News Agency APA reports citing the law enforcement bodies of the country, a resident of Sheki region, 36-year-old Azer Yusubov who fought in the armed groups in Afghanistan was killed by the forces of international coalition.

Among “mujahideens” the Azerbaijani terrorist was known as “Seyfuddin”.

The information that Yusubov was under the international investigation was placed on the website of Interpol.

According to that information Yusubov spoke Afghan, Russian and Azerbaijani languages. He was accused of creating armed groupings, arming them and fighting in illegal armed groups outside Azerbaijan.

As APA noted a few days ago information about the death of another Azerbaijani who was under the investigation of Interpol was released. His name was Urfan Aghjabekov, he was a resident of the town of Khudat. 39-year-old Aghjabekov was accused of creating armed groupings, arming them and fighting in illegal armed groups outside Azerbaijan.

Note that recently there has been an increase in the reports of elimination of Azerbaijani terrorists. Since the beginning of 2014 APA Azerbaijani News Agency has reported about the elimination of 18 terrorist from Azerbaijan in Syria.

Since last year the media has reported about liquidations of Azerbaijani terrorists in Syria. In early April of 2013, the Turkish sites have reported that about 30 terrorists from Azerbaijan were killed in Syria while by January of 2014 according to Azerbaijani News Agency APA the number of liquidated Azerbaijani terrorists in Syria equaled to 100. Azerbaijani terrorists even placed an online video-record in the Internet calling for "jihad”.

The relationship between international terrorist groups and Azerbaijan originated in the early 1990s. That time, the Azerbaijani army, having failed in the aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), retreated with losses. Trying to save the situation, the Azerbaijani leadership, headed by Heydar Aliyev attracted to the war against the Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh international terrorists and members of radical groups from Afghanistan (groupings of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar), Turkey ("Grey Wolves", etc.), Chechnya (groupings Basayev and Raduyev etc.) and some other regions.

Despite the involvement in of thousands of foreign mercenaries and terrorists in the Azerbaijani army during the war, the Azerbaijani aggression against Nagorno-Karabakh Republic failed, and the Baku authorities were forced to sign an armistice with the NKR and Armenia. However, international terrorists found ties in Azerbaijan, and used them in the future. Recruitment was conducted among Azerbaijanis, who then were sent to Afghanistan and the North Caucasus, where participated in the battles against the forces of the international coalition and Russian organizations.

In recent years, the citizens of Azerbaijan are actively involved in terrorist and extremist activities in Russia, Afghanistan and Syria. In Azerbaijan the citizens are brought to criminal liability for participating in "illegal armed groups" in Afghanistan, sentenced to minor terms of imprisonment.