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One of 12 liquidated Azerbaijani terrorists in Syria was a champion of Azerbaijan and Europe on wrestling. The Azerbaijani news agency APA reports about this noting that in Syria on March 22 in the fight between armed groupings “State of Iraq and Sham” and “Kurdish YPG” 25 terrorists got killed, 12 out of which were Azerbaijanis.

The news agency as well notes that the two out of those 12 Azerbaijanis, killed in the course of the fight, were from Sumgait. According to the information that APA has got from the WebPages of Azerbaijanis who fight in Syria, one of the killed was Jeykhun Aliyev who lived in the 41 district of Sumgait. It is as well noted that in one of the fighting the husband of his sister also died.

Azerbaijani fighters report that Jeykhun Aliyev’s sister is currently in Syria. She herself notified her relatives about the death of her husband and brother. She said that the dead bodies are still in the combat zone. According to the information, Jeykhun Aliyev was a member of Azerbaijani national team of wrestling, champion of Azerbaijan and Europe.

The terrorists as well disseminated the photo of Jeykhun Aliyev.

The believers from Sumgait told the news agency that Jeykhun Aliyev’s family held a mourning ceremony.

The other killed Azerbaijani, according to the WebPages of Azerbaijani terrorists, is a commander of a squad of Azerbaijanis, Musab Abdulrahim Abdulmajeed.

Note that Azerbaijani Salafis or Wahhabis are fighting in the ranks of various terrorist groupings that operate in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan. According to the Azerbaijani news agency Vesti.az the total number of Azerbaijani terrorists in these countries equals to 300. Whereas according to FaktHeber Azerbaijani portal over the past three years only in Syria almost 200 Azerbaijani terrorists were killed.
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.